Students as collaborators, partners and educators: The Final frontier: Implementation and evaluation

Dr Viv Binnie is a dental senior lecturer, and lead for Dental Educational Research and Scholarship at University of Glasgow Dental School. She teaches public health/behavioural sciences including communication, across all five BDS years. Formerly a tobacco researcher, her current interests lie in dental educational research particularly around student engagement, peer assisted learning (PAL) and staff student partnerships (SSPs) and student motivation as defined by self-determination theory (SDT). She has published widely and recent publications are involved with assessment & feedback and non-technical skills. She supervises in the field of health professions education, at doctoral/masters level. She is a senior fellow of the HEA, and president-elect of BARDES (British Alliance for Research in Dental Education and Scholarship).

Mr Robert McKerlie has worked extensively in the field of ‘Students as Partners’. He led the development and implementation of a self-selected study module (SSM) in eLearning where students work in partnership with academic staff to develop learning objects that will be integrated into the curriculum for future years. In the first year of this SSM the group won best presentation at the University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference ( 2016). He also established a TELT Partnership Group that provides the space for staff and students working together to study, design, review and implement technologies to enhance the learning and teaching experience. He also assisted with the development of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) programme that runs within the BDS Curriculum