
“Clinical education research is research which has the understanding or evaluation of any aspect of clinical education as a primary focus.”
Incubator for Clinical Education Research, 2024
We are a multi-professional group of researchers with expertise in education research across medicine, nursing and allied health professions. Our aim is to provide and support high quality research in response to important and practical challenges, with our findings informing change in practice.
Our research can contribute to the health needs of society by enhancing the education, training and development of all health professionals (undergraduate and postgraduate) and the organisations within which they work and learn. We can achieve this contribution through our local, national and international networks and collaborators.
Clinical education research also often includes the design and implementation of education interventions in addition to conducting research and evaluation studies. Our expertise can add value to many clinical research projects in which there is a health professional training component.
We are passionate about developing researchers who are new to clinical education research and collaborating with educators, trainers and clinicians across the health professions.
An essential aspect of our practical focus is on the development of educational scholarship in which the challenges of day to day teaching and learning prompt further inquiry (with evaluation and research), which can then inform change in practice (evidence-based teaching and learning).