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Team Members
Royal Veterinary College
Matthew Pead, BVetMed, PhD, CertSAO, FHEA, MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery, Academic Director of Professional Appraisal and Development, and Director of the Clinical Skills Centre at the Royal Veterinary College
mpead@rvc.ac.uk
Dr. Matthew Pead is responsible for the development of assessment systems at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). Recently he has reformed of the undergraduate finals examination on the veterinary course using resources from a HEFCE FDTL-4 grant for a project related to Optimising Computer-Assisted and Traditional Assessment in Veterinary Education (OCTAVE) project. He was a co-applicant with Professor May on the successful £4.9 million from HEFCE enabled development of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Lifelong and Independent Veterinary Education (LIVE), and lead the establishment of the first UK veterinary clinical skills centre at the RVC, that is now housed in the LIVE building. Matthew has pioneered the linkage between learning contextualised through practical skills, and objective assessment with effective feedback in veterinary objective structured clinical examinations, and has embedded these techniques throughout clinical education at the RVC. Despite educational commitments, Matthew remains an active member of clinician/educator group that practice within the RVC’s animal hospitals. Matthew coordinated the NTFS project bid and remains the lead contact for the administration of the grant.
Vicki Dale, BSc, MSc, FHEA, PhD
Lecturer in Veterinary Education, LIVE Centre
vdale@rvc.ac.uk
Dr. Vicki Dale gained her PhD at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, where she worked as an educational technologist supporting e-learning for 13 years. During that time she developed a keen interest in the wider aspects of veterinary education, which she was able to further explore as a Research Fellow at the LIVE Centre. Subsequently appointed as a Lecturer in Veterinary Education, she is pursuing research interests in workplace and lifelong learning, as well as maintaining an interest in the role of web 2.0 technologies in education, particularly in supporting informal learning. Vicki is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Centre for Excellence in Professional Placement Learning, a member of the Association of Veterinary Teachers and Research Work, and one of the founding members of Veterinary Education Worldwide. Vicki provides pedagogical support to the project at the RVC.
Research Assistant, LIVE Centre
kmagnier@rvc.ac.uk (from 28 September 2009)
Kirsty joined the ECLW team in September 2009. Based at the Royal Veterinary College’s LIVE Centre, Kirsty is conducting documentary analyses, questionnaires, focus groups and interviews and analysing her findings in partnership with Ruolan Wang (University of Nottingham) in order to identify best practice in clinical workplace education. Kirsty has a specific interest in experiential learning environments, having worked at the Experiential Learning CETL at the University of Plymouth. She is also particularly interested in exploring the role of educational technologies such as wikis, blogs and mobile learning devices in helping to prepare students for the workplace, as well as investigating the more traditional methods of hands-on clinical training.
Stephen A. May, MA, VetMB, PhD, DVR, DEO, FRCVS, DipECVS, FHEA
Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal for Teaching at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, and Academic Director of the LIVE Centre for Excellence in Lifelong and Independent Veterinary Education.
smay@rvc.ac.uk
Professor Stephen May is responsible for coordinating the management and development of existing undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, and CPD provision at the Royal Veterinary College. He is a member of the College’s Senior Management Group and chairs the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Committee.
Stephen is interested in assessment methods for professional learning, and development of skills for lifelong learning, and was instrumental in initiating key skills courses for both veterinary and biological science students, which include communication skills, interview and appraisal skills, and team-working. He has pioneered new approaches to teaching, learning and assessment. The award of £250,000 by HEFCE FDTL-4 and the Department of Employment for the Optimising Computer-Assisted and Traditional Assessment in Veterinary Education (OCTAVE) project to rationalise veterinary assessment schemes maximises the use of computer-aided assessment, in formative and summative examinations, and has led to the development of objective structured veterinary practical examinations. Stephen’s successful bid for £4.9 million from HEFCE enabled development of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Lifelong and Independent Veterinary Education (LIVE), the centrepiece of which is the recently completed state-of-the-art clinical skills facility, enabling the College to educate outstanding professionals who are capable and committed independent learners.
Stephen is a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a founding member of Veterinary Education Worldwide.
University of Nottingham – School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
Richard Hammond, BSc(Hons) BVetMed, PhD, DVA, Dip ECVAA, FHEA, MRCVS
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Anaesthesia and Head of the Division of Surgery
School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
richard.hammond@nottingham.ac.uk
Dr. Richard Hammond is the project coordinator for the Nottingham University project team. His passion for enhancing education has evolved through many years working in various teaching roles across four of the UK’s veterinary schools. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is currently studying for his Masters degree in Medical Education. Richard has responsibility for the design, development and implementation of the assessment strategy for the clinical workplace learning components of the veterinary course at the University of Nottingham. He also works closely as part of the team of clinicians developing the clinical rotations across Nottingham’s new and innovative dispersive model of seven veterinary partners across three counties. With other colleagues on the NTFS project team at Nottingham, Richard has been piloting new strategies for enhancing the learning experience of the students in the placements including use of High Definition Video Conferencing and the use of Web 2.0 technologies in extending the community of learning to the work placement. His role as Nottingham coordinator is primarily about communication between the team and between the sites in which the various components of the study are being undertaken. He also act as one of the portals for information about the project for the Nottingham team.
Liz Mossop, BVM&S, MMedSci (Clin Ed), MAcadMed, MRCVS
University Teacher, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
liz.mossop@nottingham.ac.uk
Liz Mossop is a veterinary surgeon who worked in mixed/equine practice for several years before becoming taking a strong interest in clinical education. She has a Masters degree in Clinical Education and is currently undertaking a part time PhD in Veterinary Education. A university teacher at SVMS, Liz coordinates the personal and professional skills module as well as teaching on numerous other modules. Her research interests are professionalism and communication skills, and this is the area that she wants to focus on within the ECLW project – primarily looking at how students can learn these skills in the workplace. Liz is also interested in the use of portfolios as a method of assessment, and integrating them into workplace learning. She helps to coordinate data collection and contributes to data analysis at SVMS.
Sarah Freeman, BVetMed, PhD, CertVA, CertVR, CertES, DipECVS, FHEA, MRCVS
Associate Professor in Veterinary Surgery, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
sarah.freeman@nottingham.ac.uk
Dr. Sarah Freeman’s main professional interests encompass equine surgical disorders and undergraduate education. An active clinician, she provides surgical services and consultancy to the Defence Animal Centre, Melton Mowbray. Her clinical research is in equine gastrointestinal disease. Sarah played a major role in developing the new veterinary curriculum at Nottingham, and received the Lord Dearing Award in 2007 in recognition of her efforts. She has secured collaborative educational grants for evaluating learning in the new veterinary curriculum, and for visual learning equipment (ceiling visualiser for anatomical demonstration and audio-visual conferencing links with clinical practices). Sarah also supervises a PhD student on visual learning in the veterinary curriculum (jointly with Professor Murphy and Dr. Hammond).
University of Nottingham – School of Education
Roger Murphy, BSc, PhD
roger.murphy@nottingham.ac.uk
Director of the Centre for Developing and Evaluating Lifelong Learning (CDELL) and the Institute for Research into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (IRLTHE) in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, and also Director of the Visual Learning Lab Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Professor Roger Murphy has specialist interests in the evaluation of educational interventions. Much of his work has involved evaluations of innovations in the field of educational assessment and qualifications, and their impact upon student learning. He has acted as a consultant to the DfES, QCA, ESRC, and the Department of Health in the UK, and a number of other national governments in relation to the design and management of evaluations of national educational pilot schemes and other innovative developments.
Roger directs the IRLTHE team input to the project and, together with the other institution leads, directs the work of the Nottingham based Research Fellow. In his capacity as Director of the Visual Learning Lab, Roger already collaborates closely with the SVMS in the provision of support for workplace learning.
Ruolan Wang, BSc, MSc, PhD
Research Fellow, School of Education
ruolan.wang@nottingham.ac.uk
Dr. Ruolan Wang joined the team in January 2009, having obtained a PhD in Education from the University of Exeter (2007). With an interest in generating an evidence-base for undergraduate and postgraduate provision and, particularly, assessing the impact of technological interventions with an educational component, Ruolan’s main responsibilities are conducting research fieldwork in a range of locations, using a variety of data collection techniques to identify best practice in the use of the clinical workplace as a learning environment. Prior to her current role, she was working in the Education Enhancement Unit at the University of Exeter on a research project evaluating the impact of use video and conferencing technologies on undergraduate teaching and learning. One of the main cohorts of the project was a collaborative study with the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry looking at medical students perceptions of video conferencing and video streaming for learning.
University of Nottingham – School of Pharmacy
Claire Anderson, BPharm, PhD, FRPharmS, MCPP
Professor of Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy
claire.anderson@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor Claire Anderson is the Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health and Health Care. The centre provides an institutional base for the inter-disciplinary investigation of the delivery and experience of health and health care, in the context of current developments in UK health policy and the associated restructuring of education of health professionals. It brings together a wealth of experience in multidisciplinary research from a number of partner schools, Pharmacy, nursing, community health sciences, sociology and social policy, education and veterinary science. Claire has strong links with pharmacy education and is currently a lead on the WHO/UNESCO/ International Pharmaceutical Federation global pharmacy education taskforce. Claire provides the link to pharmacy and to CSRHCC. UK Schools of Pharmacy including Nottingham are currently expanding their provision of placements.