• Expertise-1: Continuously updates disciplinary knowledge
  • Expertise-2: Undertakes professional development in pedagogy and implements new strategies
  • Expertise-3: Improves teaching practice through reflection and feedback
  • Expertise-4: Engages in educational scholarship that informs own teaching practice and influences others
Pedagogical Research

Pedagogical Research

As an Education Focused academic at UNSW my research program is pedagogical in nature and focuses on learning and assessment of clinical skills. I have published regularly over recent years, as shown in my ORCID profile (see link). My most important outputs are first-author papers I published in

SimConverse: AI-powered Virtual Patients for communication skills development - a Nexus, SOCM (MPR/Rural) and TST/MHEDU collaboration!

SimConverse: AI-powered Virtual Patients for communication skills development - a Nexus, SOCM (MPR/Rural) and TST/MHEDU collaboration!

Across 2024/2025, I led implementation of a large-scale educational innovation using SimConverse, an AI-driven virtual patient (VP) platform, to enhance teaching of advanced communication skills in the Medicine program and addressing a persistent challenge in medical education: the provision of consistent, high-quality experiential learning in communication across large and