Dr Stephanie Bull
Senior Lecturer (E&S)
S.A.Bull@exeter.ac.uk
2916
722916
College House G.03
College House, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
Stephanie is a senior lecturer with an education focused role at the University of Exeter Medical School. Her leadership roles have included Problem Based Learning, assessment and public involvement. She is currently leading the development of education scholarship, evaluation and research for the Undergraduate teaching team.
Broad research specialisms:
Stephanie is involved in evaluating teaching interventions in the undergraduate medical curriculum. Most recently she has explored the impact of updating PBL cases and processes to better reflect current educational thinking.
She is also interested in the formation of socio-academic networks,and how these influence a students ability to thrive, both in terms of attainment and wellbeing.
Stephanie is interested in how newly qualified doctors make their medical decisions and particularly the contribution of biomedical science to this process.
Finally she is interested in the career decisions of academics and clinicians and how this informs the development of supportive work environments and practices.
Qualifications
PhD Epidemiology of Campylobacter in broiler chickens (2005 from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bristol)
Fellow and Senior Fellow of the HEA 2012 and 2014 respectively
Research
Research interests
Stephanie is the author of 17 peer reviewed articles and has published in the field of Medical Education. She regularly presents at international educational conferences such as ASME and AMEE.
S. Bull K. Mattick, K. Postlethwaite. 2013. ‘Junior doctor decision making: isn’t that an oxymoron?’ A quantitative analysis of junior doctors’ ward based decision-making. Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 65 (3) 402-421
N Campbell, A Sabra, L Alderson, S Bull. 10 Dec 2009. Choosing a specialty. BMJ Careers.
SA Bull, KL Mattick. What biomedical science should be included in undergraduate medical curricula and how is this decided? 2010 BEME rapid review. Medical Teacher. 32: 360-367
Neve, H, Bull S, Lloyd H, Gilbert K, Mattick K. Evaluation of an innovative, evidence-guided, PBL approach. 2018. Clinical Teacher, 15 (2), 156-162
Clinical Teaching Fellows, the new norm? - Experiences of Fellows and Education faculty. Submitted to Clinical Teacher, May 2021
Research projects
Grants/Funding:
Grants awarded to investigate educational impact of interventions in PBL cases (multi-centred 2012-3, 10K)
Grant to enhance the transitional spaces around the Exeter Medical School (2015-7, 6K),
SEDA grant to investigate education focussed academic careers (2020-1, 4K)
ASME board award to investigate the interconnectivity of medical students (2020-21, 20K)
Publications
Journal articles
External Engagement and Impact
Awards
Senior Aspire Fellow and Senior Fellow of the HEA 2014
External Examiner for Phase 1&2 at BMBS at Imperial College London (2017-2021)
Member of the Education Research Committee, Association of the Study of Medical Eduction (2021)
Teaching
Taking a 2 year break from teaching at Exeter to focus on developing scholarship, evaluation and research with the Undergraduate teaching team.Previously
Co-Lead Problem Based Learning in Year 1 and 2 medical programme.
Lead for Year 1 knowledge assesment medical programme
Member of discipline group for Microbiology and Immunology
Module lead for MSc Clinical Education Masters - Literature Reviews
Delivers, science lectures, science seminars, PBL sessions and marks a range of assessments