Innovation in Health Professional Education

Overview

The Department of Nursing are involved in a broad range of research activities focusing on rural and primary health care.

Collaborations with other tertiary institutions and health services have resulted in projects focusing on innovation and evaluation of teaching and learning that has the potential to enhance the performance of health practitioners.

Within this research theme we have projects available for postgraduate students and research collaborators. We can also accommodate keen students with their own area of interest within this theme.

The research team have ongoing research projects and experience in a variety of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies.

Potential research topics

• Technology enhanced learning and teaching
• Clinical simulation
• Inter-professional education
• Graduate-entry nursing education
• Education programmes and competencies
• Scopes of practice (e.g. RN, NP, Designated Nurse Prescriber)
• Competence assessment
• Work integrated learning
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
• Clinical education
• Quality improvement in education (e.g. benchmarking)
• Communication in healthcare
• Reviews and evaluations of health education
• Education modalities

Names of supervisors

• Profesor Philippa Seaton
• Dr Virginia Jones
• Dr Henrietta Trip
• Dr Mandy Wilkinson
• Jo Borren

Application

Applicants must be eligible for admission to the PhD or MHealSc programme at the University of Otago.

• PhD programme entry requirements
• MHealSc programme entry requirements

Funding notes

Whether you are a domestic or an international student, the University of Otago has a range of Doctoral Scholarships available to you.

If you are a straight A student (GPA of 8 - 'A' grade) or higher, who has completed an honours or master's degree with an appropriate research component from a New Zealand university then you are likely to be guaranteed a University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship.

• University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship
• Other scholarship opportunities

For more information, please contact us with a copy of your transcript and CV.

Useful information

• Graduate research at the University of Otago
• Scholarships at the University of Otago