Dr Margaret Wood

Head of Programme, Taught MA Programmes in Education & PCAP

Margaret’s professional career has included teaching in schools and working for a local authority as a school adviser, an Ofsted inspector and NPQH trainer before moving into Higher Education. Prior to coming to York St John University, Margaret worked at the University of Bradford and before that at the University of Central Lancashire.

Here at York St John she is Head of Programme for the MA in Practitioner Research: Improving Professional Practice and the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP). She teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, particularly in the areas of educational research and practitioner enquiry, how we learn, creativity and values education. She has some overseas teaching experience as a member of the team delivering the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice at the University of Bahrain. She has also taken part in an evaluation of a taught professional development programme for teachers in Qatar.

Research interests

Student voice and young people as researchers

Internationalisation and the global dimension in the higher education curriculum

Engaging student voices in higher education and developing students’ roles in researching experiences of learning through participatory methods

Publications and Research

Wood, M. (1998) Partners in Pursuit of Quality: LEA support for School Improvement after Inspection in Earley, P. (ed) School Improvement after Inspection, London: Paul Chapman

Hoy, C. Bayne-Jardine, C. & Wood, M. (2000) Improving Quality in Education. London: Falmer Press

Savage, M. & Wood, M. Making Learning Better: listening to pupil voice in Secondary Headship. Issue 48 October 2006

Lucas, D. & Wood, M. Students as Researchers: making a difference in Secondary Headship Issue 53 April 2007

Holderness, B. Bold, C. Henry, D. & Wood, M. (2008) Extending boundaries: young people as action researchers. Journal of Education Vol 43, 57-78

Wood, M. (2008) Listening to Pupils’ Voices in Warren, S. (ed) Education Studies. Continuum Publications.

Wood, M. (2009) Young People as Researchers in Fiedler, J. & Posch, C. (eds) Yes, they can! Children researching their lives. Baltmansweiler, Schneider Verlag Hohengehren

Dell, C and Wood, M. (2009) Internationalisation and the Global Dimension in the Curriculum, Educationalfutures Vol 2 Issue 2

Dell, C. & Wood, M. (2010) ‘Developing Students as Critical Thinkers through Global Learning Using Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) Pedagogic Principles’ in Cooper, M. (ed) Changing the Culture of the Campus: Towards an Inclusive Higher Education – Ten Years On. London: European Access Network

Wood, M. (2010) ‘Developing a Community of Enquiry Approach to Learning in Higher Education’ , Pedagogical Technologies in Socialization and Resocialization of Society, Vol 1, 107-116

Wood, M. (2011) 'Closer to the ground': pupil 'voice' and the development of knowledge about schools, The Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 2 (1) 1-15

Leach, T. and Wood, M. (2011) Knowledge Creation and Organisational Learning. In the proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge-Based Business and Education, January 8-10, Bahrain, Bahrain

Su, F. & Wood, M. (2012) What Makes a Good University Lecturer? Students' Perspectives of Teaching Excellence. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 4 (2), 142 - 155.

Rouse, S. & Wood, M. (2012) Perceptions of New Academic Staff: a qualitative study of how the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice has impacted on their professional development, Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal, 3 (3), 675 - 681.

Wood, M. (2012) Making sense of learning: undergraduate students’ perceptions of their learning experiences. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (forthcoming)

Conference Papers

Traveller Families and Schools. The Eleventh International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement: Reaching out to all learners. 4^th January 1998

Paper presented at 2^nd International Conference on Research with and by Children, Hermann Gmeiner Academy, Innsbruck, Austria. 10^th - 12^th December 2007: Young People as Researchers

Paper presented at British Education Studies Association Conference, Liverpool Hope University, June 2008 Dell, C. & Wood, M. Internationalisation and the Global Dimension in the Curriculum

Paper presented at European Access Network Conference (EAN) Conference June 2009: Dell,C. & Wood, M. Developing students as critical thinkers through the global dimension using enquiry-based learning (EBL) pedagogic principles

Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on the Social and Moral Fabric of the School, York St John University, 25th - 27th March 2010, Reconceptualising Impact in Teacher Practitioner Research Undertaken for Postgraduate Study

Paper presented at the Canada International Conference on Education (CICE), Toronto, May 2010, Developing a Community of Enquiry Approach to Learning in Higher Education

Paper presented at the Education and Employers Taskforce Conference, University of Warwick, October 2010, Understanding the Learning-Working Nexus in Higher Education.

Paper presented at the International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge-Based Business, Industry and Education (KBIE), Bahrain, January 2011: Leach, T. and Wood, M. Knowledge Creation and Organisational Learning

Paper presented at the Engaging Voices Participation and the Student Experience Symposium, Sheffield Hallam University, October 2011, Making sense of learning: undergraduate students’ perceptions of their learning experiences in higher education

Paper presented at the Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE), Dublin, April 2012, Rouse, S. & Wood, M. The impact of the participation by newly-appointed academic staff in the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice on their professional development

Paper presented at the British Education Studies Association (BESA) 8^th Annual Conference, The University of Hull, June 2012, Wood, M. What makes good group work? Investigating undergraduate students’ perceptions of their experiences of learning in groups.

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Member of the College of Teachers

Contact Details

E: m.wood@yorksj.ac.uk

T: 01904 876443

Office Location: Upper Temple TW215