2008 - 2013   PhD "Mood, Emotive Content, and Reasoning"

2007 - 2008   MSc Psychological Research Methods, Distinction

2004 - 2007   BSc (Honours) Psychology, 1st Class

Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (CPsychol)

Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsP)

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (inc. Registered Data Analyst) 

Academy of Medical Educators, AoME (FAcadMEd)

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Editorial board member for BMC Medical Education

Association for Medical Education in Europe, AMEE

Association for Dental Education in Europe, ADEE

Association for the Study of Medical Education , ASME

International Association for Dental Researchers, IADR

British Society for Oral and Dental Research, BSODR

Association of Science Educators in Dentistry, ASEiD

Community and Primary Care Research Group (University of Plymouth)

Division of Education and Scholarship (University of Plymouth)

Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical Education Research, CAMERa

International Network for Health Workforce Education, INHWE

Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research, PIHR

Carers and Parents Network, University of Plymouth

Collaboration for Compassion in Healthcare Education, University of Plymouth

LGBT+ Allies Network, University of Plymouth

Faculty Research Ethics and Integrity Committee (University of Plymouth Faculty of Health)

I regularly work with R, SPSS, AMOS, Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, and Powerpoint. I've also used MLwiN, E-Prime, Visual Basic, Dreamweaver and other Adobe creative suite applications, Google drive applications, and LaTeX for data collection, analysis, and dissemination of my work.

 

I have used and developed a range of assessment and psychometric measures, am WASI trained, apply and adapt quantitative analysis techniques on a daily basis, and have experience of qualitative methodologies including interviewing, focus groups, and transcription.

2024-Present

In conjunction with my Associate Professor role, I am also the Head of Assessment for Peninsula Medical School. With the role comes responsibility for all forms of assessment across the school's programmes, and the opportunity to work with staff, students, and external partners to continue developing our approaches and methods in these areas. During this time I have also received (and accepted) an invitation to join the editorial board of BMC Medical Education. 

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2021-Present
Alongside lecturing, and promotion to Associate Professor of Assessment and Psychometrics, I have focussed more of my time of developing workshops for staff training, both locally, nationally, an internationally, covering topics related to assessment strategy, design, and standard setting. I have also recently developed modules on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Dentistry, and Teaching Evidence Based Medicine for the Medical University of Lodz, Poland, and consulted as a subject matter expert for CommsMultilingual. During this time I have been granted registered Data Analyst status with the Royal Statistical Society, through which, alongside my Fellowship of the society, I am part of the 'Statisticians for Society' project which offers pro bono statistical support to charitable organisations.

2018-2021 

Lecturer in Assessment Psychometrics, University of Plymouth Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (Faculty of Health), continuing from my previous role, as well as managing the Psychometrics Team, supporting assessment and research across the medical, dental, dental therapy and hygiene, physician associate, clinical education, and diagnostic radiography programmes. Research on assessment, equality, and integration, among other topics, as well as additional work in the areas of clinical skills, simulation, and rehabilitation, and projects funded by medical and dental regulators.

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2013-2018

Senior Assessment Psychometrician, University of Plymouth Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (Faculty of Health); see above.

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2012-2013

Lecturer in Psychology, Plymouth University. Teaching Social Psychology, Environmental Psychology, and Critical Thinking, as well as statistics and research methods.

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2011- 2012

Appointed as an Editor of the PsyPAG Quarterly. Voluntary research consultancy on an NHS service evaluation of the input of Clinical Psychologists to a paediatric diabetes team. Working as a Research Assistant with the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry.

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2010- 2012

Conducting WASI assessments on members of an Autism support group in Plymouth as part of an ongoing research project; Working as an assessor for OCR.

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2009

Research consultancy and support for an ongoing NHS research project based around a sex-offender treatment programme and its effectiveness.

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2008- 2013

PhD research into the effects of emotion from a range of sources on reasoning tasks; Associate Lecturer, teaching statistics and research methods to undergraduate psychology students at the University of Plymouth; Marking and assessment across a range of topics and methods.

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2008

Masters dissertation on the effects of mood and content in syllogistic reasoning.

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2007

Undergraduate dissertation project on the effects of assessment anxiety on reasoning.

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2004 

Assisting with teaching maths and science at The William Allitt Secondary School as part of the Student Associate Scheme with Exeter University.

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2004- 2010

Undergraduate and Postgraduate representative, liaising with fellow students, staff, and programme committees

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2003- 2004

Working as a member of a support team for new students to Burton College as part of an initiative to improve completion rates on AS and A2 courses.

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2000

Voluntary teaching work in Stanton Primary School.

Staff training and Professional Development

• Assessment in medical and dental education workshops

• Standard setting and post-test analysis workshops

• Workshop on survey methods and questionnaire design

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BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography

• Introduction to Statistics in Research
   

BSc (Hons) Dental Therapy and Hygiene

• The Brain: An Overview - Introduction to Neuroanatomy

• Statistics and Research Methods

 

MSc Clinical Education and MSc Global Health

• Research Designs and Data Analysis

• Blueprinting, Standard Setting, and Psychometrics

• Statistics and Research Methods Clinics

• Project supervision

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Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery

• Problem Based Learning session facilitation

• Enquiry Based Learning session facilitation

• Academic Tutoring

• 'Doctors as Educators' session facilitation

• Support and facilitation of Student-Selected Components in Research

• Statistics and Research Methods Clinics

• Prizes and Awards Coordinator

• Case-Unit Block Lead

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Environmental Psychology (Module Lectures) - BSc (Hons) Psychology

• Environmental Psychology: Its scope and assumptions

• Environmental Stress I: Its nature and effects

• Environmental Stress II: Crowding and other stressors

• Orienting to the Environment: Cognitive Maps

• Crime, Defensible Space, and Neighbourhoods

• Resource Conservation I: Managing the ‘Commons Dilemma’

• Resource Conservation II: Psychological Approaches and Interventions

• Environmental Attitudes: Cultural Representations and Environmental Philosophies

• Environmental design: Taking the user into account

• Psychology of Place: Identity and Attachment

 

Critical Thinking (Module Lectures) - BSc (Hons) Psychology

• Why is thinking hard?

• Knowledge, Beliefs, and Science

• The Scientific Method I

• The Scientific Method II

• Evaluating Evidence

• Fallacies in Arguments

• Decomposition and Structure of Arguments

• Potential Pitfalls in Study Design

• Human Judgement

• Objectivity and Subjectivity

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BSc (Hons) Psychology and MSc Psychological Research Methods​

• Qualitative Research in Psychology

• Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

• Planning, Conducting, and Transcribing Qualitative Research Interviews

• The Science of Human Behaviour

• Experimental Design

• The Ethics of Psychological Research

• How do you find out the age of a tree? - Simple Linear Regression

• How do you find out the age of a tree? - Multiple Regression

• Analysis of Variance and Related Techniques

 

Summer School - BSc (Hons) Psychology

• Measures of Variability and Z-Scores

• Probability and Sampling Distributions

• Psychoanalytic Approaches

• Perception

• Historical Perspective

• Teratology