Rate My Professor Kim Wilson

Dr Kim Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in the Macquarie University School of Education and currently the Interim Principal at MUSEC School. She possesses thirty years’ experience in education across tertiary and secondary sectors, with more than twenty years in leadership positions. As an expert practitioner, her strong track record of academic and professional publications supports and extends her teaching methods, subject knowledge, and research agenda.

Wilson's research interests include mid-career transition to teaching, teacher attrition and retention, equity, inclusion and access to education, critical thinking in educational contexts, teacher professional learning in school-based research, and the teaching and learning of historical literacy. Recent projects encompass the Accelerate MTeach Program supporting STEM mid-career transitions into teaching, the effect of Flipped Learning as a pedagogical intervention to increase critical thinking skills, Practitioner Inquiry positioning teachers as researchers in professional learning models, and NSW Equity Consortium initiatives on equity, inclusion and access to higher education. She has earned awards such as the 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education - Educational Leadership Prize (team with J. Dutton, R. Garofano, M. Holmes, M. Bower), 2023 Educational Leader (team), and 2008 Higher Degree Research Award for Best Publications. Wilson serves as a reviewer for the Review of Educational Research journal and Ethics Reviewer for Low Risk Applications. Her publications total 19 articles, 2 chapters, 1 book, and 1 commissioned report, including 'A case study of students' and teachers' attitudes towards BYOD and its use within their history classrooms' (2025, with D. Chilton, J. Dutton), 'Boundary crossing or boundary space traversal? Investigating the extent to which practitioner inquiry into educational practice is enduring' (2025, with J. Dutton), 'Leveraging the value of warm knowledge: engaging the proximity principle through University Ambassadors in developing high-school students’ possible selves' (2025, with J. Dutton et al.), and the book 'Re-visioning historical fiction for young readers: the past through modern eyes'. She has presented at 30 events, including 12 invited talks on topics like practitioner inquiry and educational research.