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Higher education outreach: examining key challenges for academics (2019)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., Danvers, E., Hinton-Smith, T., Atkinson, K., Bowden, G., Foster, J., …Williams, S. (2019). Higher education outreach: examining key challenges for academics. British Journal of Educational Studies, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2019.1572101

How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional c... Read More about Higher education outreach: examining key challenges for academics.

“I’m a medic”: a web-based, social capital approach to health careers (2018)
Journal Article
Garrud, P., Hughes, G., Greaves, S., McCracken, S., & Doyle, J. (2018). “I’m a medic”: a web-based, social capital approach to health careers. MedEdPublish, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2018.0000280.1

Widening access to medicine in U.K. requires outreach that engages schools in remote areas, schools with below average attainment, and schools serving disadvantaged communities in order to develop a more representative profession and meet serious wor... Read More about “I’m a medic”: a web-based, social capital approach to health careers.

The effectiveness of drama-based activities to teach the cardiac cycle to undergraduate students (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Hughes, G., & Davies, . A. (2018). The effectiveness of drama-based activities to teach the cardiac cycle to undergraduate students

Active learning modes are thought to promote higher levels of student engagement, understanding and thus, improve test scores and satisfaction. Nevertheless, few studies have used drama as an active learning tool to learn complex physiological concep... Read More about The effectiveness of drama-based activities to teach the cardiac cycle to undergraduate students.