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People

We are the largest and most prolific healthcare education research group in the UK, and our people are internationally-recognised for their scholarly activities.

Director

Academic Staff

Dr Lorraine Hawick

Lorraine is Senior Lecturer. Her research explores the influences of space and place on curriculum development. She graduated in 2018 with a PhD in Medical Education, for a thesis entitled: Understanding the Relationships between Curriculum Reform, Space and Place in Medical Education. Lorraine is co-programme coordinator for MSc Medical Education.

Contact: l.hawick@abdn.ac.uk

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Dr Helen Vosper

Helen is Chartered ergonomist (Human Factors specialist) and is a Senior Lecturer and the lead for patient safety. Helen believes that Human Factors has much to offer healthcare curriculum content, facilitating learner development of practical competencies that can be applied in the workplace to optimise health and care system outcomes, including staff and patient safety.

Contact: helen.vosper@abdn.ac.uk

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Dr Haci Yilmaz

Haci is a Lecturer in Psychometrics at the Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation (CHERI). He is responsible for supporting the psychometric aspects of the summative and large-scale formative assessment of the MBChB programme, including the selection process. He also supports such approaches across other programmes in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition. His research interests are primarily in programme evaluation, assessment and psychometrics with a special focus on multilevel modeling and scale development.

Contact: haci.yilmaz@abdn.ac.uk

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Non-academic Staff

PhD Candidates

Jane Smith

Jane Smith graduated from Glasgow University in 1998 with Commendation. She then spent eight years in Private and NHS dental practice. The next ten years she spent working with the Community and Public Dental Services in NHS Grampian, she is currently still doing this work part time. Four years ago, she came to Aberdeen Dental School where she is now a Clinical Lecturer.

She has recently become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and recently completed the Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education.

Contact: janesmith@abdn.ac.uk

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/janesmith

Florin Nedelea

Florin joined CHERI in May of 2021 as a Faculty Development Support Officer. His work is to promote, to assist and to support the development of teaching and learning activities designed and delivered by faculty in the MBChB clinical curriculum. He is working on implementing the staff development strategy which encompasses provisions and training of University of Aberdeen and key NHS partners. Prior to joining CHERI, Florin was an eLearning Adviser within the Centre for Academic Development at the University of Aberdeen.

Contact: florin.nedelea@abdn.ac.uk

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Associates

Professor Jen Cleland

Professor Jennifer Cleland was the Director of CHERI until 2020 and the John Simpson Chair of Medical Education Research. She is an Honorary Professor at University of Aberdeen and continues to support CHERI. A clinical and occupational psychologist by training, for many years she split her time working in the UK National Health Service (latterly in Liaison Psychiatry), while holding university roles within the University of Aberdeen School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nutrition.

Contact: jen.cleland@abdn.ac.uk

Director

Academic Staff

Non-academic Staff

PhD Candidates

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