The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In this fourth conversation of Series Fourteen, we talk with Dr Hugh Chilton & Dr Rob Loe
Dr Hugh Chilton is Head of ScotsX at The Scots College, Sydney, where he also teaches History and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team. His passion is for 'the vocation of formation'. ScotsX aims to better form students character and realise their potential through a reinvented educational experience centred on connection, choice and challenge. Hugh been involved in designing significant research at Scots and internationally, including as a member of the International Boys’ Schools Research Committee and a number of projects including an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant exploring Indigenous Education and wellbeing. He convenes and co-founded the Research-Invested Schools Network, which draws together over 40 Australian schools reinventing expertise in education through grass-roots and collaborative research. Hugh holds a PhD in intellectual and religious history from the University of Sydney, and has published and spoken widely. In 2018 he was named as one of the 'Rising Stars in Education' by The Educator magazine.
Dr Rob Loe is the former Group CEO of the Relationships Foundation in England. He joined the wider family of relational organisations back in 2013 to found Relational Schools, having worked as a teacher and senior school leader for over a decade. He studied Education at Cambridge University where he pursued areas of specialism such as schooling and exclusion, the family and community dimensions of social exclusion and school improvement and effectiveness. Having completed a doctorate in 2015, which focussed on the measurement of human relationships, Robert now researches, writes and speaks on the importance of fostering positive relationships between key stakeholders in schools. Having moved to Australia in mid-2020, he worked for a peak association as a leadership coach and specialist in organisational culture and community development. Rob took up the post of Director of Research and Learning Innovation at the Scots College in Sydney this year.
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