I am an Associate Professor within the Learning and Teaching Academy at Heriot-Watt University, based on the Edinburgh campus, supporting staff across five global campuses. I have worked in higher education for over twenty years and within the field of education technology for over twenty-three years. My interests focus on critical active learning, inclusion, digital accessibility, creativity and care. I am a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), a Senior Certified Member of the Association of Learning Technology (SCMALT) and Deputy Team Leader of an AdvanceHE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) 2022. In 2023 I launched a new international online conference: Escape Rooms in Education Showcase, attracting participants across multiple sectors.
Publications
- Interdisciplinarity defines our identity as medical educators
- Current Provision of Understanding Hearing Loss Training in UK and Ireland Medical Schools
- Playful Learning, Events and Activities to Engage Adults.
- A virtual surgery in general practice: Evaluation of a novel undergraduate virtual patient learning package
- Awarding global grades in OSCEs: Evaluation of a novel eLearning resource for OSCE examiners
- Deaf awareness training in medical schools
- Content and discontent: a qualitative exploration of obstacles to elearning engagement in medical students
- Safe moving and handling of patients: an interprofessional approach
- Changing medical students’ attitudes to and knowledge of deafness: a mixed methods study
- Rich Stories: Embedding LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® into Undergraduate Medical Education
- Online learning in clinical skills: the Belfast experience
- Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care
- 17. Humanising learning design with digital pragmatism
- Humanising online learning through the lens of engaged pedagogy
- eLearning in clinical education: a questionnaire study of clinical teachers' experiences and attitudes.
- Humanising learning design with digital pragmatism
- Escape Rooms in Education Showcase 2023: Playlist of Presentations
- Overcoming Obstacles: A Roadmap for Effective Collaboration between Engineering Academics and Third Space Professionals
- Delivering public health advice to sign language users: a qualitative study with key stakeholders