Deb Outhwaite has held senior roles in secondary, post-16, and system leadership in England. She has nearly twenty years of experience of teaching and leading in Higher Education and works at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Education. She is Chair of BELMAS (2023-2026), a Visiting Senior Fellow at London School of Economics for Education Policy, and an Associate Fellow at the CCCSE at UCL. An academic, and former education charity CEO, Deb gained her professional doctorate in Educational Leadership in 2016.
Deb is the Director of Studies for the MA Education Online at Liverpool, where she has been an EdD Supervisor since 2017. She has co-convened the Leadership Preparation and Development Research Interest Group since 2015, and has published more than 60 papers, book chapters, and textbooks. She is a former Vice-Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust. A Governor of an 11-16 school in Derby City and a Member of School Trust in Hertfordshire that delivers the International Baccalaureate’s Diploma Programme. She is a Fellow of The Chartered College of Teaching, Fellow of The RSA, Fellow of CollectivED | Research | Leeds Beckett University, and Fellow of the The Institute for Equity, University Centre. She sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Education and is a Regional Lead for the campaigning group WomenEd.
Deb is a pracademic – interested in knowledge exchange with research that includes the perspectives of a wide range of leaders and practitioners, particularly women, helping to generate agency, and inform change to create better system equity.