This crucial guide answers the questions that arise from designing, conducting and communicating research in the field of educational leadership and management. The authors bring different theoretical and research perspectives to the discipline and provide commentary and resources to help postgraduate students, practitioner researchers, supervisors and early career researchers to understand what it means to do research from a critical perspective. This must-have companion is the only book in the field that coherently shows what critical approaches actually mean and how they may be carried through from conceptualisation, to design, to carrying out and writing up the research, and beyond.