Featured publications

We have a strong body of work exploring how health partnerships can be strengthened and evaluated with behavioural science.

Our publications in this areas include:

• A pre-post study of behavioural determinants and practice change in Ugandan Clinical Officers, African Journal of Health Professions Education 
• How behavioural science can contribute to health partnerships: the case of The Change Exchange, Globalisation and Health 
• Understanding implementation of maternal acute illness management education by measuring capability, opportunity and motivation: A mixed methods study in a low-income country, Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 
• Efficacy and acceptability of an acute illness management course delivered to staff and students in Uganda by staff from the UK, International Health 
• The benefits of international volunteering in a low-resource setting: development of a core outcome set, Human Resources for Health
  

The educational technology we develop is based on our robust research into best practice in online and mobile learning.

Our publications in this areas include:

• Implementing mobile learning with iPads in higher education: a large scale case study; and Mobile learning: How mobile technologies can enhance the learning experience, UCISA Best Practice Guide
  
  UCISA is the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association and represents almost all the major UK Universities. UCISA best practice guides are shared throughout the Higher Education. community to facilitate and encourage best practice in information systems. 

• Medicine and Dentistry in A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (book)
• An international study of consumption and contribution to social media by medical students, Journal of European Association for Health Information and Libraries
  
  This paper was voted by the Journal of European Association for Health Information and Libraries as the top paper of 2016 and was awarded a prize of 500 Euros.

• Just-in-time research: A call to arms for research into mobile technologies in higher education, Research in Learning Technology
• Using mobile devices for teaching and learning in clinical medicine, Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice
• Do medical students assess the credibility of online or downloadable medical reference resources? International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence
• How we developed eForms: An electronic form and data capture tool to support assessment in mobile medical education, Medical Teacher

Our varied team study many areas of medical education, including lifestyle behaviour change training, feedback, assessment and curriculum.

Our publications in this areas include:

• Investigating the feasibility and acceptability of healthy psychology-informed obesity training for medical students, Psychology, Health and Medicine
  
• You've got to know the rules to play the game: how medical students negotiate the hidden curriculum of surgical careers, Medical Education
  
• Behaviour change techniques in health professional training: developing a coding tool, Translational Behavioural Medicine
  
• Medical students’ action plans are not specific, Clinical Teacher
• What maximizes the effectiveness and implementation of technology-based interventions to support healthcare professional practice? A systematic literature review, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
• Clinical Numeracy: Use of the Medical Interpretation and Numeracy Test in Foundation trainee doctors, Numeracy