Amanda Heffernan is Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education, the University of Manchester, UK.Jane Wilkinson is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

• Introduction—Educational Leadership and policy: precarity and precariousness 1.Theorising and preparing students for precarity: how can leaders and educators better prepare students to enter an increasingly insecure workforce? 2. Creative industries curriculum design for living and leading amid uncertainty 3. Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity 4. Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops 5. Embracing vulnerability: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the pressures school leaders in Northern England face and how they deal with them? 6. Repositioned professionals and heterodox: a response to the precarity of reform in further education 7. Necessary risk: addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning

Amanda Heffernan is Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education, the University of Manchester, UK.Jane Wilkinson is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

• Introduction—Educational Leadership and policy: precarity and precariousness 1.Theorising and preparing students for precarity: how can leaders and educators better prepare students to enter an increasingly insecure workforce? 2. Creative industries curriculum design for living and leading amid uncertainty 3. Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity 4. Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops 5. Embracing vulnerability: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the pressures school leaders in Northern England face and how they deal with them? 6. Repositioned professionals and heterodox: a response to the precarity of reform in further education 7. Necessary risk: addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning

Amanda Heffernan is Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership at the Manchester Institute of Education, the University of Manchester, UK.Jane Wilkinson is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

• Introduction—Educational Leadership and policy: precarity and precariousness 1.Theorising and preparing students for precarity: how can leaders and educators better prepare students to enter an increasingly insecure workforce? 2. Creative industries curriculum design for living and leading amid uncertainty 3. Ethical responsibilities of tenured academics supervising non-tenured researchers in times of neoliberalism and precarity 4. Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops 5. Embracing vulnerability: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the pressures school leaders in Northern England face and how they deal with them? 6. Repositioned professionals and heterodox: a response to the precarity of reform in further education 7. Necessary risk: addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning