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How do medical schools influence their students’ career choices? A realist evaluation (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, A., Kinston, R., Yardley, S., McKinley, R. K., & Lefroy, J. (2024). How do medical schools influence their students’ career choices? A realist evaluation. Medical Education Online, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2024.2320459

Introduction
The career choices of medical graduates vary widely between medical schools in the UK and elsewhere and are generally not well matched with societal needs. Research has found that experiences in medical school including formal, informal... Read More about How do medical schools influence their students’ career choices? A realist evaluation.

Extended reality (XR) virtual practical and educational eGaming to provide effective immersive environments for learning and teaching in forensic science (2022)
Journal Article
Hobson, L., Stimpson, I., Wisniewski, K., Pringle, J., Heaton, V., Zholobenko, V., …Rogers, S. (2022). Extended reality (XR) virtual practical and educational eGaming to provide effective immersive environments for learning and teaching in forensic science. Science and Justice, 62(6), 696-707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2022.04.004

Online virtual learning resources have been available for learning and teaching in forensic science for some years now, but the recent global COVID-19 related periods of irregular lockdown have necessitated the rapid development of these for teaching... Read More about Extended reality (XR) virtual practical and educational eGaming to provide effective immersive environments for learning and teaching in forensic science.

Learning in later life: using life biography to investigate the inter-relationship of learning and life course capital
Thesis
(2013). Learning in later life: using life biography to investigate the inter-relationship of learning and life course capital

Current demographics within the United Kingdom present a challenging picture, with older people forming a considerable proportion of the population. In particular, older people are spending a longer period outside paid work at a point in the life cou... Read More about Learning in later life: using life biography to investigate the inter-relationship of learning and life course capital.

Problems and projects in action learning
Journal Article
(2002). Problems and projects in action learning. Industrial and Commercial Training, 287-289. https://doi.org/10.1108/00197850210447291

Action learning is about individual and organizational learning, but also about the problem-solving process, which involves both hard and soft inputs. Problems should be distinguished from “puzzles” and criteria for identifying real problems are desc... Read More about Problems and projects in action learning.