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Becca Wood

Associate Professor
School of Creative Industries
Location: Building 108, Room 1019

Publications

Wood, B., Byrnes, V., & Woodruffe, P. (2025, December). Change, Systemic Turbulence, and Agency in ​Vocational Education: ​Maintaining Andragogical Hope through Creative Practice in Aotearoa [Paper presentation]. ITP Symposium, Online - Unitec Tāmaki Makaurau.

Wood, B., Galbraith, H., Gallagher, S., Te Whaiti, R., Ingram, S., & Watson, R. (2025, April). Creative Arts Postgraduate study – developments and challenges [Paper presentation]. ANZAAE Conference, Wintec, Kirikiriroa.

Wood, B., Mullen , M., Kewene, F., Hazou, R., & Woodland, S. (2025, December). Dignity and Performance-Making with Documentary Material [Paper presentation]. ADSA, Wellington, New Zealand.

Wood, B., & Mullen, M. (2025, December). Treading Care-fully: A workshop on listening and participating in place-based performance [Paper presentation]. ADSA, Wellington, New Zealand.

Tan, L. (Curator), Te Hira, J. (Curator), Pihema, T. (Curator), Reihana White, H., Renata, H., Wood, R., & Lamwilai, P. (2025). Ihirangaranga - A Sonic Mihi to the Puna by Rachel Shearer. [Curatorial Exercise]. Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae: Auckland, NZ, 31 May.

Tan, L. (Curator), Te Hira, J. (Curator), Pihema, T. (Curator), Reihana White, H., Renata , H., Wood, R., & Lamwilai, P. (2025). Ihirangaranga - ORO ATUA Wānanga Rongoā Puoro by Jerome Kavanagh Poutama and Ruiha Turner. [Curatorial Exercise]. Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae: Auckland, NZ, 9 June.

Wood, B. (Director), Mullen , M. (Director), Hobbs, P. (Sound Designer), Pedersen, R. (Props material designer), & Valentine, J. (Graphic Designer). (2025). The Public Stand - an ode to the Avondale Racecourse. [Performance]. Whau Arts Festival, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 and 18th October 2025.

Wood, B., Hannah, D., Janssen, S., Tisi, R., Tang, R., & Wookey, S. (2024, June). Re-Spacing Assemblies through Spatial Assemblages [Paper presentation]. Performance Studies International #29 Assemble, London.

Wood, B. (2024, December). Walking Upstream [Paper presentation]. ITP Research Symposium, Unitec, Tamaki Makaurau.

Wood, B. (2024, December). Walking Upstream [Paper presentation]. ITP Research Symposium, Unitec.

Wood, B., & Mullen, M. (2024, September). Walking Upstream: Headphone-guided walking performance: Practice and process [Paper presentation]. ITAC - International Teaching Artists Conference, University of Auckland.

Wood, B. ((choreographer writer), Mullen, M. (dramaturg writer), & Hobbs, P. (Sound design). (2024). Walking Upstream. [Performance]. Site-based Boon Sculpture Trail, Hamilton, Sunday 4 February, 4pm Saturday 9 March, 4pm Sunday 10 March, 10.30am Saturday 23 March, 4pm Sunday 24 March, 10.30am Boon Arts.

Wood, B., & Wood, M. (2023, June). Online roundtable: Panel discussion of an echo of Unearthing Frequencies: Stone Stories [Paper presentation]. Modes of Capture - University of Limerick/Liz Roche Company., University of Limerick, Ireland.

Wood, B., & Mullen, M. (2023, December). Unearthing Frequencies: An echo of an echo of an echo [Paper presentation]. Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies 2023 - Archives, Artists & Absences, Adelaide.

Wood, B. (2023). Stories in the Landscape 2022. [We Carry Stones - interactive sound work and live performance]. Group exhibition. Curated by Gina Ferguson, Waitakaruru Sculpture Park, Tauwhare, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Wood, B. (Participant). (2023). a series of distributed site-based choreographic wanderings. Johannesburg.

Wood, B., & Mullen, M. (2023). Echoes of Unearthing Frequencies - Stone Stories. [Performance]. Limerick, Ireland, June, 10th June 2023 - IntraSpaces, at The Irish World Academy, University of Limerick/Liz Roche Company.

Wood,, B., Reihana, T., Gray, J., & East, A. (2022, April). Recentering dance education in Aotearoa – a culturally responsive approach [Paper presentation]. Decolonising Tertiary Dance Education: A time to acts, Stockholm/Online.

Wood, B., & Valentine, J. (2022). If these walls could talk. [Design Output]. Gallery One, the Space Between Us: Tāmakai Makaurau.

Woodhouse, P. (Designer), Hung, B. (Facilitator Designer), Tan, L. (Facilitator Public At), & Wood, B. (Facilitator Performance). (2022). Te Pātaka Art Trail. [Curatorial Exercise]. Te Pūkenga Unitec Campus: Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau New Zealand 27 October to 16 December. https://www.tepatakaarttrail.com.

Wood, B. (Curator and Organiser), Ferguson, G. (C)-curator and Gallery Manager, & Hannah, D. (Curator). (2022). The Space Between Us Symposium. [Curatorial Exercise]. Gallery One: March - April 2022.

Wood, B., & Longley, A. (2022). A manifesto for practice that makes us possible. BLOT, 1, 1.

Wood, B. (2022). If walking could keep us from falling The Space Between Us. [Performance]. Site-based - Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka, Tāmaki Makaurau, The SPace Between Us.

Wood, B. (Director), Mullen, M. (Director), & Patuwai, T. (Advisor). (2022). Unearthing Frequencies: Stone Stories. [Performance]. Site-based - Stonefield, Maungarei, Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand, 16-18 September, Auckland Fringe Festival.

Wood, B. (2021). The Choreoauratic Body. In Reeve, S (Eds.), Body and Awareness First ed. (pp. 47-58). Axminster, UK.

Ferguson, Wood, B. (2021, December). Let us keep together not wide apart – the space between us: a panel presentation on ambulatory research [Paper presentation]. MIT/Unitec Research Symposium, Unitec and Online.

Wood, B. (2021, December). Mapping The Space Between Us [Poster presentation]. MIT/Unitec Research Symposium, Unitec and Online.

Wood,, B., Miller,, M., Burton,, K., & Ferguson,, G. (2020, October). Remote encounters of the embodied kind: connections and misconnections in a time of crisis in Creative Industries [Paper presentation]. UNITEC RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2020, Unitec.

Wood, B., Houghton, C., & Laing, M. (Eds.). (2020). About Walking - 15 months of artist walks in Tāmaki Auckland. Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery.

Wood, B. (2020). An agent for change: Alegacy of dance education in Aotearoa. Dance Research Aotearoa, 6, 37-50. https://doi.org/10.15663/dra.v6i0

Wood, B. (Artist )- choreographer. (2020). The Public Stand - An audio guided walk through Avondale Racecourse. [Performance]. Avondale Racecourse, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 September, 2020, Te Uru Gallery.

Wood, B., Burton, K., O'Neil, C., & Young, P. (2019). Discourse of the body and Mātauranga Māori in dance education. Talking Teaching, Unitec (Vol. 1).

Wood, B. (2019). An agent for change: a legacy of dance education in Aotearoa. Leap Symposium, Performing Arts, University of Otago.