 Around this time, he also had a relationship with John Anderson, the dedicatee in at least one of Wood's books.Later he was to meet Richard Lippe, with whom he lived from 1977 until his death in 2009.From 1973 to 1977, Wood was a lecturer on film studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry, one of the first three such courses in Britain, which he founded with financial support from the British Film Institute.