Staff profile

Dr James Wood is Assistant Professor of Digital Literacy & Assessment in the School of Education at Durham University.

His research tackles the challenge of designing assessment and feedback environments that transform the student and staff experience, empowering students to actively seek, generate, and use feedback to enhance learning, as well as orchestrate their own learning processes by using assessment as a catalyst to develop the skills required to become the key agent in their own lifelong learning. He works from sociomaterial, socio-constructivist, relational and dialogic perspectives, with a particular focus on how digital technologies and AI can be used to support feedback literacy, learner agency, and the co-construction of knowledge in ethically grounded ways. 

Previously James held roles at Bangor University (Director of the National EdD, Director of Assessment & Postgraduate Programmes), Seoul National University, King’s College London, and UCL. He serves on the editorial board of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education and sits on the Executive Committee of the Assessment in Higher Education Network, which hosts the annual international AHE Conference.

 

Journal Article

• Empowering agency through learner-orchestrated self-generated feedback
  
  Wood, J., & Pitt, E. (2025). Empowering agency through learner-orchestrated self-generated feedback. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 50(1), 127-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2024.2365856