Professor Taz Goddard-Fuller BA (Hons), MSc, PhD, PG-Cert LTHE, FHEA

Research Overview

I am a qualitative researcher by background, and hold a first class BA (Hons) Degree in Sociology from the University of Nottingham, UK, a Masters Degree in Social Research Methods from The Open University, UK and a PhD in Medical Education from the University of Leeds, UK. I have a number of research interests, with my current output focused on identifying and supporting students at risk of future failure. I have contributed to several major international publications including an Ottawa Consensus Paper on Technology Enhanced Assessment and a State of the Science edition of Medical Education journal, both produced once every ten years by experts in the field of medical education. I also regularly publish in the area of how developing mobile learning resources can change the way that students of the healthcare professions work and learn. With colleagues, I co-lead a developing research stream on understanding and supporting the development of professionalism, and I am particularly interested in professional identity development and socialisation processes, and how these are shaped by curriculum developments such as interprofessional education.

I am currently the lead supervisor for two PhD students:
Dr William Calvert - Understanding the development of empathy in medical students

Dr Asma Alhamrani - Exploring the different teaching options for medical professionalism and its impacts in a Saudi Arabian context

I have previously supervised the following PhD to completion:
Dr Susannah Brockbank - Remediation of Unprofessional Behaviour in medical students