Roger Wooster has worked in theatre, radio and television during his career. In 1990 he moved into academia where he has worked at FE and HE levels teaching performing arts including screen-acting modules. He has given papers at many international conferences and has been widely published in a range of academic journals. His Contemporary Theatre in Education was published in 2006 and in 2016 a major study of educational theatre, Theatre in Education in Britain, was published by Methuen Drama.