The Health Professions Education (HPE) Research Group comprises Faculty members and students interested in the scholarship of learning and teaching in the various health professions. Our priority is to foster a Community of Practice for people undertaking research in health professions education. This priority includes supporting collaboration and connections through educational research, as well as upskilling researchers.

With the Health Sciences & Medicine Faculty offering a range of health professional degrees, there are a number of research streams, many involving cross-disciplinary collaboration. 

The research in which members of the HPE Research Group are currently engaged includes as:

• Interprofessional education for undergraduate students
• Programmatic evaluation
• Decolonising health professions curricula
• Planetary health and environmentally sustainable healthcare
• Professional identity development
• Optimising online learning and learning via social media
• Optimising virtual and augmented learning
• Student and staff well-being
• Student experiences of placements
• Ethics and law
• Simulation