Month & Year	Speaker/Author	Conference/Arena	Topic
December 2012	Prof. Allan WALKER	Asian Emerging Leaders’ Summit, Hong Kong, China.	Keynote Address: Becoming the Leader I Want to Be.
December 2012	Prof. Philip HALLINGER & Dr. James KO	The third meeting of the 2012 joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA), Sydney, Australia.	What Really Makes Teachers Willing to Work Harder to Support Students in High-stakes Accountability Environments in Hong Kong Primary Schools.
November 2012	Prof. Allan WALKER	The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Convention 2012, Denver, USA.	Keynote Address: The Leaders We Want? Drones, Clones, or Dragons.
November 2012	Prof. Allan WALKER	The 4th International Conference on Vietnamese Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam.	School leadership in Vietnam – Sustainable Learning Networks for Future Growth.
November 2012	Prof. Philip HALLINGER & Dr. Darren BRYANT	The 4th International Conference on Vietnamese Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam.	Accelerating Knowledge Production on Educational Leadership and Management in East Asia: A Strategic Analysis.
October 2012	Ms. LI Lijuan & Prof. Philip HALLINGER	The Fourth Asian Conference on Education 2012, Osaka, Japan.	Impact of Principal Leadership on Teachers' Professional Learning: What the Hong Kong Primary School Key Staff and Teachers Think.
October 2012	Prof. Philip HALLINGER	Conference on Improving Education through Accountability and Evaluation-Lessons from Around the World, Rome, Italy.	Synthesis of Findings from 15 Years of Educational Reform in Thailand: Lessons on Leading Educational Change in East Asia.
September 2012	Prof. Allan WALKER	The International Symposium on Leadership, Learning and Change, Brisbane, Australia.	Keynote Address: School Leadership for Learning and Change – Progress of an Asian Agenda.
September 2012	Dr. James KO & Prof. Philip HALLINGER	British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Manchester, UK.	Assessing the Contribution of Distributed Leaderhship to School Improvement: Preliminary findings.
September 2012	Dr. James KO & Dr. Edmond LAW	British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Manchester, UK.	Building an Activity Theory of Distributive Leadership of Curriculum Development and Implementation.
September 2012	Dr. James KO & Prof. Allan WALKER	British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Manchester, UK.	Examining the Impacts of Professional Learning Communities at System and School Levels: Evidence in Hong Kong Secondary Schools.
August 2012	Dr. Dora Ho	The 22nd Annual Conference of European Early Childhood Education Research Association, Portugal.	Exploring Teacher Leadership in Early Childhood Education in Hong Kong.
August 2012	Dr. James KO	The Third meeting of the EARLI SIG 18 Educational Effectiveness "From Theory to Theory. Empirical Analysis in Relation to Theoretical Models of Educational Effectiveness", Zurich, Switzerland..	Examing the Former Principles and Cross-level Effectiveness in a School: A Revisit of Creemer's (1994) Comprehensive Model.
July 2012	Dr. Dora Ho	The 13th Annual Conference of Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association, Singapore.	Makers of the Change Makers: Empowering Teacher Leaders in Early Childhood Education.
June 2012	Prof. Allan WALKER	The International Conference on Responding to the 21st Century Demands for Educational Leadership and Management in Higher Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Keynote Address: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Department Leadership Tensions.
June 2012	Prof. Philip HALLINGER	The International Conference on Responding to the 21st Century Demands for Educational Leadership and Management in Higher Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Keynote Address: Riding the Tiger of Higher Education Reform in Asia Pacific.
June 2012	Dr. LU Jiafang, Miss LIU Xiaoqian, Prof. SHI Kan, Prof. Dean TJOSVOLD & Dr. GAO Li	The 2012 Biannual IACMR Conference, Hong Kong, China.	Leading through Cooperation: Transformational Leadership, Cooperative Goal Interdependence, and Follower Outcomes.
April 2012	Prof. Philip HALLINGER & Dr. LU Jiafang	The annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.	Learning Centered Higher Education in East Asia: Assessing the Effects on Student Engagement in Management Education.
April 2012	Prof. Philip HALLINGER & Dr. LU Jiafang	The annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.	Overcoming the Walmart Syndrome: Adapting Problem-based Management Education in East Asia.
March 2012	Dr. James KO & Ms. LI Lijuan	The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Piloting Principal Leadership Practices and School Capacities in Hong Kong Primary Schools.
March 2012	Dr. LEE Moo-sung	The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Revisiting the Direct Effect of Principal Leadership on Student Learning.
March 2012	Dr. Dora HO	The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Leadership in Early Childhood Education in Hong Kong: From Apprenticeship to Change Agentry.
March 2012	Dr. Dora HO, Dr. LEE Moo-sung & Dr. Leon TIKLY	The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Teacher Leadership in Early Childhood Education in Hong Kong: From Apprenticeship to Change Agentry.
March 2012	Dr. Edmond LAW	The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	The Influence of the Leadership Styles on Teacher Communication-networking in Subject Teams: A Hong Kong Perspective.
March 2012	Prof. Philip HALLINGER	The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Research Project on Instructional Leadership in East Asia.
March 2012	Dr. LU Jiafang, Prof. WANG Hong, Prof. Philip HALLINGER & Prof. Allan WALKER	The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.	Key Areas of Responsibilities of Vice Principals in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
February 2012	Ms. LI Lijuan & Dr. James KO	Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong Annual Conference 2011, Hong Kong, China.	Principal Leadership and Student Learning Outcomes in the Accountability System: What Differs in Four Hong Kong Primary Schools.
February 2012	Ms. LI Lijuan	Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong Annual Conference 2011, Hong Kong, China.	A Review of Three Decades of Empirical Studies on Principal Time Allocation at Work: From the Perspective of Methodological Features.
January 2012	Dr. James KO & Prof. Allan WALKER	The 25th International Congress of School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Malmo, Sweden.	Could a Community Model Work for Hong Kong Secondary Schools?: Evidence and Challenges.
January 2012	Dr. James KO & Prof. Philip HALLINGER	The 25th International Congress of School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Malmo, Sweden.	Examining the Effectiveness of Professional Teacher Development as a Strategy for School Improvement at System and School Levels: Evidence in Hong Kong Secondary Schools.