Dr Margaret Wood

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Name:

Dr Margaret Wood

Email:

m.wood@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education, Language and Psychology

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

York St John University Lord Mayor’s Walk York, YO31 7EX

Country:

United Kingdom

Biography

Expertise:

Qualitative research methodologies, Higher Education research

Job title:

Senior Lecturer

Biography:

During my professional career I have worked in three universities including York St John University which I joined in 2004 as Head of Programme for taught post graduate programmes in Education. I teach on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Education and supervise doctoral researchers. I also have overseas experience teaching the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP) in Bahrain and I was a member of a team evaluating a professional development programme for teachers in Qatar. I have a strong track record of research and publications and have presented papers at conferences both nationally and internationally. I have been an External Examiner for Master’s degree courses at five UK universities and have examined doctoral students at universities more...

Qualifications:

I studied as an undergraduate at the University of Leeds after which I completed a PGCE, a Master’s degree in Education and a PhD (University of Manchester).

My Latest

Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978, Su, Feng and Pennington, Andrew (2024) Research Briefing Paper: The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Young People’s Mental Health. Discussion Paper. Not applicable. (Unpublished)
Taslibeyaz, Elif, Su, Feng and Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 (2024) GenZ – the new generation of university students and implications for academic practice. European Educational Research Association.
Walker, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4494-8093, Pennington, Andrew, Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 and Su, Feng (2023) Lived experiences of educators and leaders in multi-academy trusts in England: The colonisation of schools, the erosion of community engagement and the need for alternative futures. Research in Education.
Pennington, Andrew, Su, Feng and Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 (2023) ‘Untangling the entangled knot’: A critical and genealogical examination of multi-academy trusts’ (MATs) ideologies, power and governance in England. International Studies in Sociology of Education.
Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978, Belluigi, Dina Zoe, Su, Feng and Seidl, Eva (2023) Navigating old and new terrains of academic practice in higher education: indelible and invisible marks left from the Covid-19 lockdown. London Review of Education, 21 (1). pp. 1-15.
Dransfield, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2320-5722, Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 and Su, Feng (2022) Following the yellow brick road? Developing inspiring learning and teaching in the pursuit of teaching excellence in higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46 (7). pp. 972-987.
Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978, Su, Feng and Pennington, Andrew (2023) ‘You just need to work harder’: misalignments between the rhetoric of social mobility and education for social justice. Power and Education. pp. 1-10.
Su, Feng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0317-4033, Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 and Tribe, Robert (2023) ‘Dare to be silent’: Re-conceptualising silence as a positive pedagogical approach in schools. Research in Education, 116 (1). pp. 29-42.
Su, Feng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0317-4033 and Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 (2023) Relational pedagogy in higher education: what might it look like in practice and how do we develop it? International Journal for Academic Development, 28 (2). pp. 230-233.
Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978, Pennington, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2286-8375 and Su, Feng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0317-4033 (2022) ‘Back to the future’: Thinking with Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Alec Clegg (1909–1986) on the promise of education. Oxford Review of Education, 49 (2). pp. 247-261.

My Most Viewed

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1	What makes a good university lecturer? Students’ perceptions of teaching excellence	336
2	Pre-figurative practice and the educational leadership of Sir Alec Clegg in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1945-1974)	213	116
3	‘Closer to the ground’: issues of pupil ‘voice’ and the development of knowledge about schools	157	125
4	Extending boundaries: young people as action researchers	141	24
5	Cosmopolitan perspectives on academic leadership in higher education	135
6	In a silent way: student perceptions of silence in community	126	158
7	The Use of Dialogue in Professional Learning in Higher Education	119	79
8	Towards an ‘ordinary’ cosmopolitanism in everyday academic practice in higher education	110	117
9	What makes an excellent lecturer? Academics’ perspectives on the discourse of ‘teaching excellence’ in higher education	106	984
10	A mission possible: towards a shared dialogic space for professional learning in UK higher education	103