Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Projects

There are a large number of CETLs related to learning and teaching in healthcare subjects.

There are summaries of all of them here, and a PDF of a booklet available to download.

Centre for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning in Mental Health

This CETL will develop a dynamic and collaborative partnership between six schools in the university and th the mental health service user, practice and policy communities. Through this partnership it will enhance and expand the delivery and evaluation of innovative, interdisciplinary mental health programmes with thin higher education and the mental health sector. Service user and carer involvement as well as e-learning will be key features of programme development and evaluation. The CETL will actively contribute to the promotion of best practice in supporting students with mental health problems access and complete programmes of academic study.

Main Contact: Professor Ann Davis, Professor of Social Work, University of Birmingham.
Contact: Dee Partridge, Tel.: +44 ( 0) 121 414 5734, Email: d.partridge partridge@bham.ac.uk
Website: www.ceimh.bham.ac.uk For more information about this CETL see CEIMH

The AIMS Centre (Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences)

This CETL will integrate the teaching of medical sciences with clinical skills in an excellent learning environment. It will develop proven teaching approaches in anatomy, physiology and pharmacology to include state-of-the-art models, images and simulations of normal and diseased body structure and function. A major resource of web-based histology and pathology teaching material will also be created. Existing teaching space will be extended and enhanced to include a clinical anatomy and surgical training centre. New equipment and software, including computer-controlled human ‘manikins’, will be purchased and a number of staff appointments will be made.

Contact: Dr Judy Harris and Dr Richard Greene, CETL Directors, University of Bristol
Website: www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Physiology/new/teaching.htm For more information about this CETL see AIMS

Centre for Inter-Professional e-Learning (CIPeL) in Health and Social Care

CIPeL will develop and disseminate solutions to barriers that hinder integration of inter-professional learning with thin health and social care education. Innovative ‘e-approaches’ will enable students to engage in collaborative exploration of specially designed resources, shared through the CIPeL’s web portal. CIPeL will be a beacon of best practice, promoting inter-professional e-learning nationally and internationally, and will build on innovative developments in both universities, such as web-based patient journeys, multimedia accounts of patient/client experience and virtual learning groups. CIPeL will provide scaleable solutions that enable students to learn with, from and about each other, while enhancing their preparation for the collaborative, partnership working which underpins modern health and social care.

Contact: Anne Davidson, CETL Director and Inter-professional Case Studies Tutor, Coventry University
Website: www.corporate.coventry.ac.uk/?d=1949#eLearning/ For more information about this CETL see CIPeL

SOLSTICE - Supported Online Learning for Students using Technology for Information and Communication in their Education

SOLSTICE encompasses excellence in supported online or blended learning. It involves academics and learning technologists as a hub of expertise in pedagogic design for development of this method and its embedding with thin curricula. It focuses on capturing the power of new technologies including VLEs for flexible delivery and is orientated towards widening access by making learning opportunities available from the workplace. It will initially focus on professional development for students working in public services but will add value to delivery of all Edge Hill programmes.

Contact: Mark Schofield, Head of Teaching and Learning Development, Edge Hill College of Higher Education
Website: www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/ For more information about this CETL see SOLSTICE

Advancing Skills for Professionals in the Rural Economy (Aspire)

The Aspire CETL builds on Harper Adams’ excellent record in student progression, achievement and employment in the professions serving the rural economy. We shall create a centre that brings together staff and students to provide a focus for work-based learning, academic and professional skills development, t, learner support (dyslexia, numeracy and study skills) and learning technologies. We aim to enhance support for all students, especially those who are part-time, sandwich or work-based learners and those with disabilities. We intend to develop and share good practice with others, primarily through funded secondments.

Contact: Abigail Hind, CETL Director and Head of Educational Development and Quality Enhancement, Harper Adams University College
Website: www.harper-adams.ac.uk/aspire

IDEA (Inter-disciplinary Ethics Across Subject Disciplines)

The IDEA CETL builds on the established excellence in ethics teaching in the Leeds medical course where subject specialists and ethicists help students integrate the diverse ethical issues in the course into to a coherent Ethics Theme which crosses subject and year boundaries. The CETL will transform student experiences by extending these successful features of ethics teaching to other programmes of study across the university, including biosciences, business, computing, education and engineering. Thus it will equip students to address increasing public concern about ethical issues in business and professional life. Furthermore the IDEA AS CETL will contribute to national and international debate on these issues and their pedagogical implications.

Contact: Chris Megone, CETL Director and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Leeds
Website: www2.idea.leeds.ac.uk. For more information about this CETL see IDEA

Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS)

This CETL will ensure that students graduating from courses in Health and Social care (H&SC) are fully equipped to perform confidently and competently at the start of their professional careers. H&SC courses rely on the quality of students’ learning experiences in practice settings. The excellence already demonstrated by us with thin professions can be extended and disseminate across professions, providing the opportunity to learn in an interprofessional environment. Identifying generic and specific professional competences will allow us to develop work-based educators and practitioners who will confidently support students’ learning, and specifically assessment, in the workplace and across professional boundaries.

Contact: Professor Trudie Roberts, CETL Director, Professor of Medical Education, University of Leeds
Website: www.alps-cetl.ac.uk. For more information about this CETL see ALPS

Genetics Education - Networking of Innovation and Excellence (GENIE)

This CETL builds on existing expertise and synergy between world-class science genetics education. We will lead the development of innovative approaches and establish a network of institutions engaged in teaching genetics, promoting the sharing of resources and experience. An internationally accessible database of these resources will also be assembled. Intrinsic to the philosophy is the embedding of generic skills and the application of generic approaches to broader fields, for example, biotechnology, medicine and law. Therefore the learning experience of students from a wide range of subjects will be enhanced, reflecting the broad impact of genetics on science and society.

Contact: Annette Cashmore, Sub Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, and Head of Department of Genetics, University of Leicester
Website: www.le.ac.uk/genetics/genie

Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Developing Professionalism in Medical Students

Through this CETL, we will further develop in our students the professional attitudes which are increasingly important in the NHS in the 21st century, better preparing them for their future careers. We will do this by:

• developing robust mechanisms to assess attitudes and behaviour of medical students
• developing a careers advice service for medical students
• underpinning the changes by developing criteria to determine excellence in clinical teachers which we would aim to have accepted nationally.

The work will be appropriate for dissemination to all medical schools and to other professions - especially in health care.

Contact: Professor A S Garden, Executive Director CETL, Head of School of Medical Education, University of Liverpool

For more information about this CETL see DPMS

Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning

The CETL will capitalise on our excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL), with Medicine and Manchester Business School being leaders in problem-based and case-based learning, and a National Teaching Fellow pioneering these approaches in humanities. The CETL will extend EBL throughout the new university, aligned with our LTA strategy and working with students as partners. We will establish a university 'hub' facility for EBL linked to four faculty 'spokes'. The hub will provide support and expertise, whilst each spoke will implement a major EBL project, reaching at least 5,000 further students overall. A programme of evaluation and research will support the CETL. This is a complex CETL, which has a basis in medicine and dentistry, and liaises directly with the Academy York.

Contact: Professor Paul O’Neill, CETL Director and Professor of Medical Education, University of Manchester
Website: http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/ceebl. For more information about this CETL see CEEBL

Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Mental Health and Social Work

The centre will enhance teaching quality by:

• continuing to develop innovative programmes of learning for practice
• establishing a core capability-based curriculum, adaptable to mental health and social work, that allows workers to learn to together and work to together
• delivering that curriculum in the workplace via team teaching and mentoring
• devising strategies for student support that enhance retention and progression
• making sure that other learners beyond mental health and social work professionals are influenced by the CETL's teachers to raise their own thresholds of performance in academic work and in practice.

Contact: Professor Peter Ryan, Professor of Mental Health, Middlesex University
Website: www.scmh.org.uk/80256FBD004F6342/vWeb/wpKHAL6K5EUE. For more information about this CETL see MHSW

Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Professional Education (CETL4HealthNE)

This CETL will work with a range of partners across the region to design and deliver innovative learning and teaching for future health professionals - in order to meet the changing expectations of patients. Increasingly, healthcare students will learn together in the workplace, with simulated and real patients (and communities), and will learn to involve patients to best manage their care. Students will learn professionalism, to be creative and to work with developing technologies as well as to value each other and their patients - to meet the needs of future healthcare.

Contact: Professor Geoff Hammond, CETL Director, and Head of School of Medical Education Development, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Website: www.CETL4HealthNE.ac.uk. For more information about this CETL see 4HNE

Placement Learning in Health and Social Care

The CETL for Placement Learning in Health and Social Care aims to enhance health and social care students’ practice/placement learning. Various strands of development work relating to placement learning and teaching are planned: preparing and training staff, supporting students with disabilities, evaluating learning assessment to tools, evaluating interprofessional learning opportunities, auditing and enhancing the learning context, and the role of OSCEs. Building on existing excellence, the CETL also aims to develop new multi-professional placement opportunities at the cutting edge of service in the South West including working with refugees and asylum seekers, prisoners, homeless people and carers.

Contact: Susan Lea, Associate Dean (learning and teaching, University of Plymouth
Website: www.plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/placement. For more information about this CETL see PLHSC

Centre for Excellence in Professional Development Through Education Research and Technology (the ExPERT Centre)

The ExPERT Centre is designed to provide students in health-related sciences with exciting and innovative ways to learn and develop professionally. The centre will have state-of-the-art equipment to support the creative delivery of both academic and professional skills including dynamic media, computer-aided learning, telemedicine, laboratory and human patient simulation. Initially concentrating on students in health-related sciences, the ExPERT team will embed the use of blended learning and research how this impacts on the student experience. Through dissemination and collaboration with national and international partners, we will establish a community of practice to share our experience and expertise.

Contact: Professor Lesley Reynolds, CETL Director, University of Portsmouth
Website: www.port.ac.uk/cetl. For more information about this CETL see EXPERT

4E CETL for Clinical and Communication Skills

This collaboration between two institutions in an established strategic alliance will enhance communication and clinical skills in students from five healthcare disciplines. It has grown from a shared clinical skills facility where staff are recognised nationally and internationally for groundbreaking work in helping students acquire and continuously improve professional practice skills. It will now extend beyond this, offering new opportunities for students to learn and practice in a safe environment at their own pace. Rigorous, fair assessment and stronger links with the NHS, supported by the development of the mobile ‘Skills Bus’ will be additional benefits. The students' experience will encourage lifelong learning skills and reflection in practice, preparing them for careers as to tomorrow's healthcare professionals.

Contact: Dr Maggie Nicol, CETL Director, Queen Mary, University of London
Website: www.cetl.org.uk. For more information about this CETL see CCL

Centre for Excellence in Interprofessional Education (NI):Curriculum and Assessment Development

The Centre for Excellence in Interprofessional Education (NI) will undertake educational research and develop programmes of interprofessional learning and assessment within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and throughout the University. The team will undertake exploratory research to identify subject areas that will benefit from an interprofessional approach and the implications of this for future curriculum and assessment development. The team will also investigate how greater understanding of students' and teachers' learning styles and learner-teacher interaction, can inform interprofessional curriculum and assessment developments. Appropriately for healthcare students and pertinent to other academic disciplines where work-based learning occurs, these issues will be examined in relation to classroom and workplace learning. Instruments will be developed, trialled and evaluated for this purpose. Similarly, the team will expand this approach to consider how better understanding of learning and teaching styles, and learner-teacher interaction might contribute to mass higher education. The team will work closely with key stakeholders including professional bodies, employers, students and other UK CETLs to ensure effective dissemination and sharing of expertise at all stages of development.

Contact: Dr Sue Morison, CETL Director, Queen’s University, Belfast
Website: www.qub.ac.uk/ceipe. For more information about this CETL see CEIPE

LIVE! Centre for Excellence in Lifelong and Independent Veterinary Education

The LIVE! vision is a fundamental transformation of the veterinary and allied professions, ensuring future generations will be lifelong independent learners from induction to retirement. LIVE! is focused on successful completion by all students of the important switch from pedagogical to andragogical learning modes which is a feature of effective tertiary education. Through computer-aided learning, new veterinary clinical skills laboratories, and communication skills courses, LIVE! will promote coherent, incremental professional skills acquisition. Targeted initially on veterinary students at the Royal Veterinary College and Liverpool University, the project will quickly extend to related degree programmes, including Veterinary Nursing and Veterinary Physiotherapy.

Contact: Professor Stephen May, Vice-Principal for Teaching, Royal Veterinary College
Website: www.live.ac.uk. For more information about this CETL see LIVE

Centre for Excellence in Inter Professional Learning in the Public Sector (CETL:IPPS)

This CETL builds on the university commitment to developing and supporting the public sector workforce. Based on our extensive experience of integrating interprofessional learning into to health and social care programmes the CETL will encompass education. We will develop group-based interprofessional learning opportunities for students from these services to prepare them for the team based working in the changing world of public services. An interprofessional ‘Learning Hub’ as part of the library will provide students with an environment and resources supportive of their needs. The Learning Hub will also make available resources to other institutions.

Contact: Professor Debra Humphris, Director, Health Care Innovation Unit, University of Southampton
Website: www.ipps.soton.ac.uk. For more information about this CETL see IPPS

The HEFCE website lists all 74 funded CETLs in the UK www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/tinits/cetl/final