Ian Hardy

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
141 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Ian Hardy is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Hardy has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Education, 65 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 49 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ian Hardy's work include Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (65 papers), Global Educational Policies and Reforms (60 papers) and Global Education and Multiculturalism (38 papers). Ian Hardy is often cited by papers focused on Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (65 papers), Global Educational Policies and Reforms (60 papers) and Global Education and Multiculturalism (38 papers). Ian Hardy collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Sweden. Ian Hardy's co-authors include Stuart Woodcock, Christine Edwards‐Groves, Peter Grootenboer, Jane Wilkinson, Stephen Kemmis, Laurette Bristol, Steven Lewis, Karin Rönnerman, Kun Dai and M. Obaidul Hamid and has published in prestigious journals such as Teaching and Teacher Education, Science Education and Applied Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

Ian Hardy

130 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Changing Practices, Changing Education

2013 536 citations Christine Edwards‐Groves, Ian Hardy et al. profile →
Inclusive education policies: discourses of difference, diversity and deficit

2014 174 citations Ian Hardy, Stuart Woodcock International Journal of Inclusive Education profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Hardy Australia	24	1.7k	572	540	288	233	141	2.4k
Mark Priestley United Kingdom	24	2.1k 1.3×	887 1.6×	632 1.2×	228 0.8×	164 0.7×	63	2.9k
Nicole Mockler Australia	24	2.1k 1.3×	779 1.4×	311 0.6×	235 0.8×	174 0.7×	68	2.6k
Judyth Sachs Australia	21	2.3k 1.4×	643 1.1×	476 0.9×	312 1.1×	146 0.6×	54	2.8k
John Furlong United Kingdom	29	1.8k 1.1×	857 1.5×	460 0.9×	267 0.9×	196 0.8×	84	2.9k
Christopher Winch United Kingdom	27	1.3k 0.8×	617 1.1×	476 0.9×	266 0.9×	77 0.3×	132	2.1k
Helen Gunter United Kingdom	33	2.7k 1.6×	852 1.5×	903 1.7×	233 0.8×	392 1.7×	195	3.3k
Pasi Sahlberg Australia	21	1.8k 1.1×	427 0.7×	578 1.1×	72 0.3×	250 1.1×	56	2.5k
David F. Labaree United States	22	1.9k 1.1×	819 1.4×	486 0.9×	75 0.3×	156 0.7×	75	2.5k
Patricia Broadfoot United Kingdom	27	2.0k 1.2×	482 0.8×	417 0.8×	98 0.3×	268 1.2×	112	2.6k
Clive Dimmock Hong Kong	30	1.9k 1.1×	349 0.6×	294 0.5×	90 0.3×	270 1.2×	110	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Hardy

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hardy, Ian, M. Obaidul Hamid, Vicente Reyes, & Louise Gwenneth Phillips. (2025). Testing times: The affective impact of tests in Bangladeshi schools. International Journal of Educational Development. 114. 103239–103239. 1 indexed citations

Hardy, Ian, M. Obaidul Hamid, Vicente Reyes, & Louise Gwenneth Phillips. (2025). Great expectations: understanding perceptions of the affordances and constraints of dashboard data. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 46(6). 729–742. 1 indexed citations

Hardy, Ian, Vicente Reyes, Louise Gwenneth Phillips, & M. Obaidul Hamid. (2024). Re-presentations and im-possibilities: the politics of dashboard data. Journal of Education Policy. 39(6). 986–1006. 2 indexed citations

Reyes, Vicente, Louise Gwenneth Phillips, M. Obaidul Hamid, & Ian Hardy. (2023). Navigating datascapes: mapping testing practices within and across national and global contexts. Learning Media and Technology. 49(1). 109–121. 1 indexed citations

Dai, Kun & Ian Hardy. (2023). Pursuing doctoral research in an emerging knowledge hub: an exploration of international students’ experiences in China. Studies in Higher Education. 48(6). 784–796. 21 indexed citations

Hardy, Ian, Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Vicente Reyes, & M. Obaidul Hamid. (2023). Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach. Comparative Education. 59(4). 584–601. 2 indexed citations

Hardy, Ian & Stuart Woodcock. (2023). Inclusive education policies – objects of observance, omission, and obfuscation: ten years on …. International Journal of Inclusive Education. 28(13). 3234–3252. 12 indexed citations

Hardy, Ian, et al.. (2022). Imagining language policy enactment in a context of secrecy: SDG4 and ethnic minorities in Laos. Journal of Education Policy. 38(5). 849–869. 2 indexed citations

Hardy, Ian, et al.. (2020). The policies and politics of teachers’ initial learning: the complexity of national initial teacher education policies. Teaching Education. 32(3). 286–308. 9 indexed citations

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Hardy, Ian, Vicente Reyes, & M. Obaidul Hamid. (2019). Performative Practices and 'Authentic Accountabilities': Targeting Students, Targeting Learning?.. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 18(1). 20–33. 7 indexed citations

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Hardy, Ian & Michael Uljens. (2018). Critiquing Curriculum Policy Reform in Finland and Australia:: A Non-affirmative, and Praxis-oriented Approach. 15(2). 50–82. 4 indexed citations

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Hardy, Ian, M. Obaidul Hamid, & Vicente Reyes. (2018). Data for learning? Confirming and contesting performative practices of data governance. Global Studies of Childhood. 8(4). 339–354. 3 indexed citations

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Lingard, Bob, et al.. (2018). A critical examination ofTeach for Bangladesh’sFacebook page: ‘Social-mediatisation’ of global education reforms in the ‘post-truth’ era. Journal of Education Policy. 33(5). 632–661. 11 indexed citations

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Hardy, Ian & Steven Lewis. (2017). Visibility, invisibility, and visualisation: the danger of school performance data. Pedagogy Culture and Society. 26(2). 233–248. 15 indexed citations

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Hardy, Ian & Stuart Woodcock. (2014). Inclusive education policies: discourses of difference, diversity and deficit. International Journal of Inclusive Education. 19(2). 141–164. 174 indexed citations breakdown →

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Edwards‐Groves, Christine & Ian Hardy. (2013). "Well, that Was an Intellectual Dialogue!": How a Whole-School Focus on Improvement Shifts the Substantive Nature of Classroom Talk.. Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO). 12(3). 116–136. 6 indexed citations

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Hardy, Ian, et al.. (2010). Professional development policy and politics across international contexts: from mutuality to measurability?. Pedagogy Culture and Society. 18(1). 81–92. 14 indexed citations

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Edwards‐Groves, Christine, et al.. (2010). Relational architectures: recovering solidarity and agency as living practices in education. Pedagogy Culture and Society. 18(1). 43–54. 51 indexed citations

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Hardy, Ian. (2009). Teacher Professional Development: A Sociological Study of Senior Educators' PD Priorities in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l éducation. 32(3). 509–532. 12 indexed citations

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Maxwell, Graham S., Peter Noonan, Mark Bahr, & Ian Hardy. (2004). Managing better: measuring institutional health and effectiveness in vocational education and training. Bond University Research Portal (Bond University). 2 indexed citations

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