My broad research interests are in the hidden aspects of the undergraduate medical currciulum - including the role of learning environments and the influence of social networks.
I am involved in teaching students across all five years of the undergraduate medical programme.
I received my primary medical qualification from Oxford University in 2003, having also completed a BA in physiological sciences and an MSc/DLSHTM in immunology. My undergraduate research was in the area of membrane transport in malaria-infected erythrocytes and my MSc thesis focused on the immunology of schistosomiasis. Whilst at medical school I published a book on infectious diseases and tropical medicine, aimed at medical students.
After graduation I returned to the North West for postgraduate medical training. After house jobs in Blackburn and an SHO rotation with Alder Hey Children's Hospital, I moved into academic training at the University of Manchester and continued my paediatric training alongside a PhD in medical education (in learning environments). In 2009 I began training in public health medicine and took up my post at Lancaster in 2010.
I have been a member of the Academy of Medical Educators since 2009 and a member of the Faculty of Public Health since 2011.
1999 BA (Hons), University of Oxford, Physiological Sciences (with a year of Psychology)
2000 MSc and DLSHTM, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Immunology of Infectious Diseases
2003 BM BCh, University of Oxford
2003 MA, University of Oxford, Physiological Sciences
2009 MAcadMEd, Membership of the Academy of Medical Educators
2009 PhD, University of Manchester, Medical Education
2010 MPH, University of Liverpool
2011 MFPH, Membership of the Faculty of Public Health
