PhD students are very much part of the unit’s research community, working on specific projects and involved in events run by the Centre for Research in Professional Education, such as the Medical Education Research Development Conference, the Professional Lifelong Learning Conference, and the new and early career researchers group. If you are interested in undertaking postgraduate research please contact Sue Kilminster.
- We have a very high completion rate for students at postgraduate level, reflecting the careful supervision and individual attention all postgraduate students receive.
- We have excellent library facilities in the Health Sciences Library, a member of Research Libraries UK.
The following students are currently being supervised by members of the MEU to undertake postgraduate research:
Ivy O’Neill, EdD
A study to look at the training of health care professionals to find out if their training is “fit for purpose” for public health in the 21st century.
William Ramsden, EdD
Workplace based assessment in higher professional training
Zeryab Setna, MD
Assessing the utility of workplace based assessment in speciality training.
Ahmad Alamro, PhD
Learning impact of inter-sessional facilitated online discussions in problem-based learning
Fatmah Almoayad, PhD
The development of an educational intervention to facilitate workplace learning for patient educators during their transition from being students to practitioners.
Elsheikh Badr, PhD
Developing capacity for health workers education in a decentralised context: the case of the Sudan Academy of Health Sciences.
Viktoria Joynes, PhD
Does being involved in developing and teaching on interprofessional education programme have any impact on the formulation of perceptions of professional identity and culture?
Gurmit Singh, PhD
Improving the impact of Health Continuous Professional Development (CPD): An online participatory action research (PAR) community.
The following are examples of recently completed PhDs:
Genevieve Becker, PhD
Assessing health worker performance in assisting a mother to learn the skills of hand expression of breast milk. Awarded 2008, University of Leeds.
Vikram Jha, PhD
Attitudes to professionalism in medicine: development of a measure. Awarded 2007, University of Leeds.
The School of Medicine provides a range of taught postgraduate programmes, to certificate, diploma and Masters level. Staff from the unit contribute to the teaching activity of the school and wider faculty, using their expertise in specific areas of research to ensure that our teaching is up to date with the latest developments in the field.
