[4] Her research considered the factors of success or failure in Scottish student nurses.

[4] Scott-Wright moved to Canada in 1976, where she served as director of the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia for three years, and as dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary from 1979[9] until her retirement in 1985,[10] with one final stint as acting dean to cover a vacancy in 1989.

[4][11] Scott-Wright and others built a foundation for Canada's first doctoral program in nursing at Calgary.

[12] Margaret Scott-Wright retired to Norwich, and died in 2008, aged 84 years.

[13][14] The University of Calgary offered an annual Margaret Scott Wright Scholarship for nursing student.