Dr. Woods has a wealth of teaching experience, lecturing in colleges such as IICP, Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland Maynooth and Dublin Business School.

Her research and teaching interests include:

• Qualitative research focusing on the lived experience of those who use drugs or those in treatment.
• Gender Issues – I have an interest in women and health issues generally but more specifically my focus has been on women and drug use, and women and HIV;
• Alcohol and drug treatment and policy – I am specifically interested in focusing on how policy impacts on drug users;
• Counselling Practice;
• Practice based research – focusing on how learning translates into practice;
• Drug using parents – their experience of parenting;
• Women drug users’ experience of motherhood;
• Qualitative and quantitative research methods;
• Crime and social policy;
• Housing issues; and
• Educational Disadvantage.