£50K grants for education research
The Pharmacy Practice Research Trust, an independent research charity
founded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1999, has announced 10
grants totalling £50,000 for a series of small-scale studies to
undertake research into the development of pharmacy education. The recipients
are listed in the Panel below.
PPRT grant winners and their projects
· Angela MacAdam, University
of Brighton:
factors affecting the perceived success of the experiential
community pharmacy visits
in year one
of the MPharm programme
· Imogen Savage, School of Pharmacy,
University of London:
learning how to teach the “final check”
· Dai John, Cardiff University, with
Keith Wilson, Aston University, Simon Tweddell, University of Bradford,
and Ruth Edwards, Robert
Gordon University:
methods for teaching and assessing the Society’s
fitness-to-practise procedures
· David Mottram, Liverpool John Moores
University:
the provision of pharmacy undergraduate research projects
· Kevin Taylor, School of Pharmacy,
University of London, and University College London Hospitals,
and Geoffrey Harding, School of Pharmacy,
University of London:
how do pharmacy students learn?
· Denise Taylor, University of Bath:
using
videoed objective structured clinical examinations to aid student
assessment
· Lesley Diack, Robert Gordon University and
University of Aberdeen:
e-learning for sharing across medical, health and social care undergraduate
students
· Dawn Bell, South Manchester University
Hospitals NHS Trust:
using patients to assess pharmacy students’ communication
skills
· Derek Stewart, Robert Gordon University:
an
e-network of pharmacists undertaking supplementary prescribing
training and their linked
designated medical practitioners
· Alison Gail Eggleton, University
of East Anglia:
optimising the use of portfolio-based learning and
assessment in pharmacy |
Project proposals for up to £5,000
were invited from pharmacy education providers to undertake research
evaluating any aspect of
pharmacy education
that will be completed by October 2006. The trust will host a learning
event in 2006 to share the mini-project results.
The primary aims of the scheme are to support dissemination of good practice
to a wider audience, promote collaboration to enhance new and existing
projects and partnerships and provide pump-priming for feasibility studies
in innovative areas. A longer term aim is to promote evaluation and high
quality educational research studies, including systematic review.
Stephen Denyer, head of the Welsh School of Pharmacy and a member of
the Society’s Council, said: “At a time when education for
the health professions is high on the political agenda it is good to
see the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust investing in education development
research. The projects chosen address in various ways the challenges
of learning and assessment, and will all contribute to the growing innovation
within pharmacy education. The trust-sponsored event to follow in 2006
will offer an excellent opportunity to share these findings with other
pharmacy academics and educators”.
The grants were made from the trust’s education innovation fund,
which
is part of a wider R&D programme supported by a grant from the Society.
Research funded in this programme is intended to inform the development
of policy relating to the pharmacy workforce.
Further information on the winning projects is available from the Society’s
acting research manager, Beth Allen (tel 020 7572 2466; e-mail beth.allen@rpsgb.org). |
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