邁克爾．威爾遜教授是英國利茲大學百事3平台國際教育管理項目主任，他的研究方向主要是國際教育政策比較，教育管理和領導，領導倫理和學校文化🤱🏿，課程文化和課程領導。目前他研究的項目有： 1. Reforming secondary education in Bahrain: A multi-case study of the policy implementation and the management of change at Alkurumah boys' and Almajd girls' secondary schools (EdD). 2. Understanding student choice of university and marketing strategies in Syrian private higher education (PhD). 3. Educational decentralisation and its implications for teacher leadership in secondary schools in Abuja, Nigeria (PhD)等等。

他發表的部分作品有：1. Wilson, M. and Zhang, H. (2010). “Job Satisfaction in a Chinese University Foreign Languages School: An Exploratory Case Study”. International Studies in Educational Administration, 38 (3), 99-114. 2. Wilson, M. (2009). “Implementing school reform in the People's Republic of China: Implications for further research in support of school leader development”. Paper presented at the British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS) Annual Conference, Educational Leadership: where do we go from here? July 3-5, x, x. 3. Wilson, M. (2008). “Applied virtue ethics: A philosophic perspective on authentic school leadership”. Paper presented at the PESGB annual conference, Oxford University, 28-30 March, view paper, x, x.4. Lumby, J. , Harris, A., Morrison, M., Muijs, D., Sood, K, Glover, D & Wilson, M. (2005). “Leadership, Development and Diversity in the Learning Skills Sector.”. LSRC. 5. Lumby, J. , Briggs, A., Wilson, M., Glover, D. & Pell, T. (2002). “Sixth Form Colleges: Policy, purpose and practice.”. University of Leicester.