DAVID WOOD CONSULTANTS

David Wood has nearly twenty years experience as a senior manager in higher education. Before starting an independent consultancy, he was Academic Director for Continuing Professional Development at Oxford Brookes University. At Brookes he oversaw the work of the Westminster Institute of Education’s Consultancy and Development unit (turnover 2m p.a.), which had a number of national contracts with, for example, the DfES, Astra Zeneca, the Training and Development Agency for Schools, and the Arts Council. Previously he was Assistant Principal at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and a 14-19 adviser in 2 local authorities.

David Wood has conducted evaluations for and been a consultant to several Universities, Arts Council England, OfSTED, the Nuffield Foundation, ESCalate, the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, whose 2006 report rated him as ‘highly recommended.’ He wrote the national report on professional development in the national Creative Partnerships initiative in 2005. At present, he is leading the Oxford Brookes University team conducting the three-year audit of Creative Partnerships for the Arts Council.

He also conducted a three-year evaluation of the largest DfES - funded Independent State School Partnership, Learning Through Creativity.

For the Kent Surrey and Sussex Deanery he was part of the evaluation of the Foundation pilot scheme for new doctors, and in 2007 conducted another evaluation mapping the ‘learner pathway’ of foundation programme doctors. In 2007/8 he was commissioned to co-ordinate the drafting of quality assurance regulations for postgraduate medical education in the Kent Surrey and Sussex region.

He was a member of the Nuffield Foundation review of the aims of the 14-19 curriculum. He has expertise in professional development policy and a particular interest in arts and creativity in education.