Face to Face Forum

Chair: Sarah Yardley s.yardley@keele.ac.uk


Administrative support: Please email medicine.educationresearch@keele.ac.uk


The main purpose of the meeting will be an opportunity for researchers considering/conducting education research projects to present their work. Anyone with a relevant project is encouraged to consider doing this at any stage you think feedback and comment might add value to the project and so ideas in progress as well as formulated projects / run-through of conference presentations are welcome.


Meetings will start with a brief round table update of activities so please come prepared to contribute to this if you have on-going educational research projects. Hopefully in this way we can ensure people with similar interests are linked up as appropriate and share what is going on in different parts of the school more easily.


You can book a presentation slot with Vikki Hawley, or discuss it with Sarah Yardley. It would be helpful if you can let Vikki know a title and how much time you would like (usually up to 45 min per presentation including discussion) for planning purposes.


Purpose of pre-bookable slots: ‘critical friends’ for group portfolio projects and to support research training (e.g. MMedEd students)
•    Idea development – forum for ideas and research generation where apart from the main areas of work in the curriculum other subjects could be discussed such as follow up on conferences/ local expert presentations/ ideas from educational practice etc could be brought unformed and bounced around and small groups developed. Currently this happens for some people but not in a joined  up manner so there are problems of transparency/ access to people new to Medical Education Research
•    Peer review –opportunities for project discussion, development and feedback
•    Presentation in advance of conferences
•    An element of actively managing the research process for individual projects including grant application development dissemination of results - with the group taking a strategic view on submission to awarding bodies, conferences and journals
•    Quarterly student (UG/PG) ERG forum to promote student involvement and participant recruitment – to be advertised to students and staff through group members