Associate ProfessorBen Arnold

Associate Professor in Education and Course Director for the MEd Leadership and Learning at Deakin University. Ben's teaching and research focuses on education leadership and work, health and sustainability in the education sector.

Ben is the Course Director for the MEd Leadership and Learning. Within the MEd program, he collaborates with Dr. Katrina MacDonald to support educational leaders to develop ethical and intellectual frameworks to lead in contemporary education settings. They support current and aspiring leaders to critically engage with and apply key leadership theories, frameworks, and research to their practice. Their work focuses on enhancing educational leaders understanding of themselves and their contemporary roles, supporting them to build healthy relationships with colleagues, students, and parents, guiding them in leading change and innovation, facilitating meaningful professional learning, and assisting in evaluating and analysing key issues in their educational settings.

Ben also works on the Educator Health and Wellbeing research program at Deakin, investigating the relationship between education policies, psychosocial work environments, and mental and physical health in the education workforce. Ben's expertise includes assessing workplace health and wellbeing, and mixed methods research design, analysis and interpretation. He currently works on a number of large-scale longitudinal
research projects, tracking education professionals work environments and health and wellbeing over time.