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This month we spoke to , an Education Specialist within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.Ìý Last year she enjoyed national recognition, receiving the Michael Roberts Excellence in Physiological Education Award. Liz is also a member of the ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ Education Academy. Here she speaks about her approach to teaching and the methods she uses to ensure active student participation, online and on-campus.

How would you describe your approach to teaching?

Activate critical thinkingÌý
My goal is to help students to develop the knowledge and skills needed to be able to frame problems, ask good questions and propose intelligent, evidence-based solutions. I realise that the term critical thinking gets a lot of airplay – but I truly believe that providing students with the skills to think critically should sit at core of everything we do. I aim to support students to develop and apply knowledge with an open mindedness to synthesize and evaluate the quality of evidence, whilst also recognising the potential for variability and error. I want to encourage students to be self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective in their thinking.