Rate My Professor Fiona Longmuir

Fiona Longmuir (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Co-leader of the Education Workforce for the Future Impact Lab in the School of Education, Culture and Society, Faculty of Education at Monash University. She earned her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2017, with doctoral research exploring alternative education settings for disengaged youth. Her research specializations include educators’ working conditions, the role of school and system leadership in supporting student engagement and agency, crisis leadership, social cohesion, social justice in education, teacher retention, accountability, policy enactment, and student agency in school reform. Longmuir has authored numerous publications, including 'Burnt-out and demoralised: mid-career attrition from the teaching workforce' (2026), 'Australian teachers’ perceptions of safety, violence and limited support in their workplaces' (2025, Journal of School Violence), and reports such as 'Invisible Labour: Principals’ Emotional Labour in Volatile Times: Report Three: The Escalation of Violence in Schools and Its Repercussions for Principals’ Emotional Labour' (2026) and 'Invisible Labour: Principals’ Emotional Labour in Volatile Times: Report One: Technical Overview of the Project' (2025). Her work has garnered over 1,600 citations on Google Scholar. She teaches in the Master of Educational Leadership, specializing in social justice, policy enactment, and educational change, and previously led the Graduate Certificate of Principal Preparation from 2019 to 2021. Longmuir contributes to leadership programs for international school and system leaders and regularly engages in public and policy discussions to promote a sustainable teaching workforce.

Prior to her academic career, Longmuir spent over 15 years with the Victorian Department of Education and Training as a primary teacher, curriculum leader, and network leader. She also served for more than a decade as Director of Research in Innovative Professional Practice at Educational Transformations, leading national and international studies on school leadership and system effectiveness. Her contributions have been recognized with several awards, including the Dean's Award for Research Excellence by an Early Career Researcher (2023), Literati Award for Most Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Educational Administration (2022), Media Centre for Educational Research Australia Engagement Award (2022), Educational Change SIG Mentorship Award (2020), and New Voice Scholar Award for Educational Leadership Research (2019). She is a Victorian Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and has led national projects investigating teachers' satisfaction with working conditions and the health and wellbeing of public school principals.