1 Citizens of the Academic Community? Leadership, identity and citizenship in higher education Richard Bolden 1 (Richard.Bolden@exeter.ac.uk ) Jonathan Gosling 1 (Jonathan.Gosling@exeter.ac.uk ) Anne O’Brien 1 (Anne.O’Brien@exeter.ac.uk ) and Jonathan Wyatt 2 (Jonathan.Wyatt@learning.ox.ac.uk ) 1 Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter, UK 2 Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford, UK We would like to express our gratitude to the LFHE for funding this work and, in particular, Robin Middlehurst and Helen Goreham for their support and guidance. We would also like to acknowledge the contribution of our colleagues Michelle Ryan, Kim Peters and Alex Haslam in the University of Exeter School of Psychology. We are very grateful to the participants in our study, whose thoughtful contributions and generosity with their time is much appreciated. CMS7 – 7 th International Critical Management Studies Conference, 11-13 July 2011 Stream 38 “Universities, Reflexivity and Critique: Cultures and Contexts of Research Production”