EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

The experience in higher education and leadership expertise of Professor Lisa Dikomitis was recognised by the UK's Higher Education Academy (HEA, now Advance HE) with the conferment of Fellow status (2015) and my educational leadership was recognised with the conferment of Senior Fellow status (2018).

AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, KEELE UNIVERSITY, UK (2016-22)

• Lead of the Behaviour and Social Science team

• Lead for Behavioural and Social Science learning content MBChB

• Lead Qualitative Research Methods teaching MBChB

• Lead Experiential Learning (MBChB, Years 1-2)

• Lead Lifestyle Unit (MBChB, Year 1)

AT THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, UK (2014-16)

• Programme Director MSc Applied Social Research

• Lead for UG Research Methods Modules

• Postgraduate Dissertation Coordinator

• Library rep for the School of Social Sciences

• Admission Officer for PG Degrees

EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR UK DEGREES (SINCE 2016)

Her leadership in both social sciences and medical education is recognised by multiple invitations to act as External Examiner for UK Higher Education Degrees. Current roles include:

• External Examiner Phase 1 MBChB, University of Leeds (2019-2023)

• External Examiner Year 1 MBChB GEC, University of Birmingham (2018-22)

• External Examiner BA Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London (2016-19)

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, KEELE UNIVERSITY, UK (2016-22)

As the lead for the Behavioural and Social Science (BSS) and Experiential Learning (EL) components in the UG medical curriculum Professor Dikomitis played a key role in the 2018 curriculum review of the MBChB at Keele's School of Medicine. Her objective was to transform the way behavioural and social sciences is taught and assessed in medical education and the way it its appraised and studied by medical students. Her curriculum development work builds on my own scholarship activities (see below).

• Lead C2018 curriculum development of BSS content (MBChB, Years 1-2)

• Lead C2018 curriculum development of the Experiential Learning strand (MBChB, Years 1-2)

• Lead C2018 curriculum development qualitative research methods (MBChB, Years 1-2)

• Lead C2018 curriculum development of the Lifestyle Unit (MBChB, Year 1)

AT THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, UK (2014-16)

As lead for UG and PG research methods teaching in the School of Social Sciences Professor Dikomitis redesigned the social research modules in the UG Sociology and Criminology degrees and developed a new MSc/MA in Social Research. She developed a programme that was attractive to a broad market of potential students and stakeholders and was innovative in terms of its approach and content. Student recruitment was significantly increased.

• Lead new MSc/MA Social Research development of the (externally validated November 2015)

• Lead redesign social research modules in UG Sociology degrees

EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP

Since Professor Dikomitis moved to the UK in 2012 she has continuously been engaged in Higher Education pedagogic research projects, presented and published findings widely (see publications). She is also supervising different medical education research projects. She actively engages in training and mentoring university educators, nationally and internationally, expertise derived from her engagement with scholarship of teaching and learning.

Presentations and workshops included:

• [Invited workshop] The potential of ethnography in medical education research, ASME, Researching Medical Education Conference (November 2019)

• [Presentation] Assessing sociology and psychology in medical education, Behavioural and Social Sciences Teaching in Medicine (BeSST) workshop (July 2019)

• [Invited plenary panel] The potential of ethnography for family medicine research at the Annual Convention of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians (Manila, March 2019)

• [Invited workshop] Medical education Research in a global context, Annual Scientific Meeting Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME, July 2018)

• [Invited seminar] How medical students think about social sciences in medicine, Medical Education Research Group, Keele University (March 2017)

• [Invited workshop] Embedding Social Sciences in the UG Medical Curriculum, Annual Keele Medical Education Conference, Keele University (March 2017)

• [Presentation] How do medical students think? About Sociology, for example, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Annual Conference (September 2016)

• [Invited workshop] How do medical students think? Embedding Behavioural and Social Sciences in Problem-Based Learning, Training days for PBL tutors at Hull York Medical School (22-25 April 2016)

• [Presentation] Social science as applied to medicine, Medical Education Research Development Conference, University of Leeds (January 2016)

• [Invited seminar] Social sciences in medical education, School of Social Sciences Seminar Series, University of Hull (December 2015)

• [Presentation] Medical students' perceptions of social science, Research Day 'The Social Aspects of Health', University of Hull (June 2015)

• [Presentation] The Challenges of teaching anthropology in medical education, 'Teaching Amidst Change', first RAI Annual Conference in Teaching Anthropology, University of Oxford (September 2013)