Wood, Margaret

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Name:

Wood, Margaret

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) COVID-19 pandemic and the mental health and well-being of secondary school children. European Educational Research Association academic blog.
Su, Feng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0317-4033, Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 and Pennington, Andrew (2024) “The new normal isn’t normal”: to what extent has the Covid-19 pandemic affected secondary school children’s mental health and wellbeing in the North of England? Educational Review. pp. 1-21.
Pennington, Andrew, Feng, Su and Wood, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1978 (2024) Academisation, neoliberal technologies of governance and the rapid growth of multi-academy trusts (MATs) in England. Cambridge Journal of Education.
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 (Unpublished)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, 33 (3). pp. 323-344.
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.

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1	What makes a good university lecturer? Students’ perceptions of teaching excellence	327
2	Pre-figurative practice and the educational leadership of Sir Alec Clegg in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1945-1974)	213	141
3	‘Closer to the ground’: issues of pupil ‘voice’ and the development of knowledge about schools	153	120
4	Research Briefing Paper: The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Young People’s Mental Health	149	58
5	Cosmopolitan perspectives on academic leadership in higher education	147
6	In a silent way: student perceptions of silence in community	137	159
7	Extending boundaries: young people as action researchers	129	13
8	The Use of Dialogue in Professional Learning in Higher Education	127	114
9	What makes an excellent lecturer? Academics’ perspectives on the discourse of ‘teaching excellence’ in higher education	125	1009
10	Towards an ‘ordinary’ cosmopolitanism in everyday academic practice in higher education	105	107