Posts by Heather Morgan

Reimagining assessment in scaled up work-based learning: a case study in Applied Health Sciences

Heather May Morgan PhD, FHEA¹, Toni Gibson BSc, SFHEA¹, Emily Cleland MSc¹, Caroline Franco PhD^1,2

¹Postgraduate Education Group, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen

²Aberdeen Centre for Health…

Welcome to PEGblogs - a series of blog posts about postgraduate teaching, work placements and educational research in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition!

Welcome to this, the first post in our new blog mini-series, PEGblogs, launched in November 2020 via our School Blog page. We will be…

Last week, I gave the keynote talk at NHS Grampian’s Research and Development annual conference, which was held in the Suttie Centre on Tuesday, 4^th December. The conference theme was public awareness of, engagement with and involvement in clinical research. My presentation was entitled ‘Public Engagement for Public Awareness: Sharing…

Following the recent announcement of Aberdeen University’s key role in the new £15m iCAIRD artificial intelligence (AI) health research centre for Scotland, it was timely that I contributed to three public engagement events in Aberdeen across the course of 10 days in November concerning AI and health related data. As…

Last weekend, as part of Aberdeen’s annual soundfestival, I co-led a walk, ‘Sounds like Aberdeen’, between two of the programme’s performances.

The walk was one of a series hosted by my colleagues and I over the last couple of years and used our app, [M]apping, which we co-developed with funding…

An ECG (electrocardiogram) is a simple test that can be used to check a heart’s rhythm and electrical activity, designed to detect any underlying issues. The Apple Watch 4 will be the first mainstream wearable gadget, available on the commercial market, to integrate this kind of medical diagnostic technology. My…