Mr Eric Addae-Kyeremeh

Eric Addae-Kyeremeh is senior lecturer in leadership and management and a Chartered Fellow of both The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

He is currently the Associate Head of School- Innovation; in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport with overall responsibility for teaching and learning innovation, business development, and staff professional development.

Prior to this role Eric was Associate Programme Director (Postgraduate Studies) for Childhood, Youth and Education in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies with responsibility for the academic leadership of the taught postgraduate programmes. His teaching primarily focuses on leadership and management in education. He has chaired and contributed to a number of OU masters modules in Education. As head of qualification from 2013 to 2016, he led the development of the new MA in Education qualification (F70) which started its first presentation in October 2015.  

Eric's research interests are broadly in educational leadership and professional learning across cultures and contexts. He has presented academic papers in some of these areas at International conferences. His current research is focused on the use of network ethnography to explore ‘informal learning’ patterns and behaviours of school leaders in sub-Saharan Africa.

External Academic Activities

• External Examiner for the MA Applied Educational Leadership and Management  at UCL Institute of Education (2012-date)
• External Examiner for the Post Graduate Diploma/MA in School Leadership and Management (SQH)  at University of Strathclyde (2013-date)

Public duties

• School Governor in Northampton