Kayleen Wood

Kayleen Wood is a lecturer in Taxation Law & Practice at Southern Cross University, Australia, where she is also a PhD candidate. As a teaching and learning academic, her research centres on student engagement with and motivation for learning. She has brought together her qualifications in business and education, and a background in professional accounting, academic project management, and teacher education, for her PhD thesis: A gamified learning experience for accounting education.

As the recipient of a Vice Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Student Engagement, her research is already being operationalised in curriculum design and teaching resources in the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University.