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For more than 48 years, Dr. Valerie A. Storey has worked in the field of education reform both in England and the United States. She is a researcher, coach, teacher, writer, and speaker with expertise in leadership development, values-based decision-making, and graduate program design. Dr. Storey has keynoted major conferences in the US and UK. Most recently, she is the lead editor of Improving Higher Education Models Through International Comparative Analysis (2023) and Preparing Physicians to Lead in the 21st Century (2018). Further, she has authored over 55 publications in leadership, education reform, AI, values-based decision-making, and graduate program design. She has had research publications appear in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Educational Administration Quarterly, National Council for Professors of Educational Administration Publications, The School Administrator, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, National Society for the Study of Education, 2009 Yearbook, International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, Values and Ethics in Educational Administration, and International Journal of Behavioral and Healthcare Research. Her research has been referenced internationally and has contributed to developing Dissertations in Practice design for professional practice doctorates. In addition to her work in the U.S., Dr. Storey regularly conducts research with members of the U.K. Graduate Council. She is a past President of the Florida Association of Professors of Educational Leadership (FAPEL), Chair of the American Educational Research Association, Division A, Educational Leadership Dissertation Award Committee, and Chair of the Faculty Council in the College of Education and Human Performance, UCF. In public schools, Dr. Storey has served as an administrator at the school and district levels. Her plethora of experience influences the practical application of school leadership in theory and practice and adds to the clinical constructs infused into university programs. She has led and developed PhD, EdD, and MEd programs in higher education. She has chaired PhD and EdD dissertation committees, been an Institutional Review Board (IRB) institutional official (IO), and twice received the Teacher of the Year Award. Dr. Storey is co-editor of Contemporary Approaches to Dissertation Development and Research Methods, which takes up perhaps the most central problem in graduate education in departments of school leadership today, i.e., the connection between research and practice domains of the profession—and by extension, the linkages between the research and development and the policy domains of the profession. Dr. Storey received her undergraduate degree from Leeds University (UK), her master's from Manchester University (UK), graduate diplomas from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Organizations from Peabody College, Vanderbilt University (USA).

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