Research interests

Read about our research interests.

Our researchers

Dr Yan Chen

  • Medical education, assessment and evaluation
  • Teaching and learning in clinical settings, curricular innovation
  • Professionalism and professional identity
  • Teacher and student wellbeing
  • Cross-cultural research

Dr Kate Fahey-Williams

  • Teamwork, speaking up, and patient safety
  • Benefits of simulation within healthcare
  • Belonging and intergroup behaviour
  • Intergroup trust

Dr Karen Falloon

  • Student wellbeing – Sleep/Sleep Health
  • Sleep education curriculum development
  • Teaching clinical skills
  • Sleep in primary care and sleep in patients with breast cancer

Associate Professor Marcus Henning

  • Psychometric design and development of questionnaires
  • The impact of harassment on medical student experiences when on placement
  • The conceptual and practical implications of meditation in the promotion of wellbeing
  • The cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions when applied to the higher education setting.
  • Development of the New Zealand Social Frailty Questionnaire

Dr Neera Jain

  • (Anti-)Ableism
  • Experiences of learners with disabilities in health professions education
  • Cross-cultural disability inclusion practices in health professions education
  • Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in qualitative health professions education research methods
  • Safety and belonging in health professions education

Dr Mataroria Lyndon

  • Medical education
  • Hauora Māori
  • Population health
  • Digital health

Associate Professor Craig Webster

  • Human factors
  • Interprofessional performance
  • Safe systems design
  • Error tolerant systems
  • Patient experience
  • Artificial Intelligence

Professor Jennifer Weller

  • Patient Safety and team performance
  • Simulation-based team training
  • Competency Based Medical Education
  • Post-graduate medical education

Antonia Verstappen

  • Health (clinical and non-clinical) workforce development
  • Medical education and workforce
  • Primary care and general practice
  • Longitudinal research methods
  • Health systems and policy