Deb Outhwaite has worked in education for twenty-five years: teaching and examining at A Level; holding leadership roles; then spending a decade in higher education teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, lastly as the Programme Leader of the MA in Professional Education at Warwick. She is currently the Director of the Derby Teaching Schools Alliance (DTSA); an EdD supervisor at the University of Liverpool; and the External Examiner for the MA Education at the University of East London. She has sat on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Teaching Profession since 2015, and sits on the Fabian Education Group. She has been a Secondary Governor in an 11-18 comprehensive school and is the Vice-Chair of Trustees of a Derbyshire MAT. Deb is the Vice Chair of BELMAS and previously sat on the IPDA International Committee. She co-convenes the Research Interest Group (RIG) on Leadership Preparation and Development (LPD) and attends the BERA Educational Leadership SIG.