Dr Kim Wilson is Senior Lecturer in History Education and Director of Programs in the MQ Academy, Macquarie University. Her research interests include mid-career transition to teaching; teacher attrition and retention; equity and access to higher education; critical thinking in educational contexts; teacher professional learning and school-based research; and, the teaching and learning of historical literacy. Recent research projects include Accelerate MTeach Program- supporting STEM mid-career transition into the teaching profession; The effect of Flipped Learning as a pedagogical intervention strategy to increase the use of critical thinking skills; Practitioner Inquiry- the teacher as researcher, a professional learning model; NSW Equity Consortium- equity and access to Higher Education.

Kim has twenty-five years’ experience in education in both Tertiary and Secondary school sectors with more than ten years of that experience in leadership positions. She is an expert practitioner with a strong track record of academic and professional publications that support and extend her teaching method, subject knowledge and research agenda.