Claire Tarrant

Senior Lecturer

c.tarrant@surrey.ac.uk

HSM 01

Monday - Friday

Academic and research departments

School of Health Sciences.

About

Biography

I qualified as an Operating Department Practitioner in 2010 and upon graduation I was awarded the Jean Robson Award. I have worked in busy anaesthetic and post anaesthetic care units in Surrey. Early in my career I developed an interest in supporting students and followed this interest by moving into the role of Lead Mentor Facilitator and starting an MSc in Professional Practice (Innovating Operating Department Practice). It was these two factors that turned my interest in education into a passion and led to my move to the University of Surrey as a Teaching Fellow in 2015.

I currently teach on a range of modules across foundation degree, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I am able to follow my passion for education on a daily basis through the delivery of innovative teaching and feedback strategies to enhance the student experience.

Research

Research interests

My primary research interest is the evaluation and impact of innovative teaching and research strategies.

I am currently collaborating with students and colleagues to explore formative feedback within our current curricula to inform student and staff centred strategies.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

CPD and short courses

Supporting Education in Practice.

Publications

Claire Barrow (2009) A Patient's Journey through the Operating Department from an Infection Control Perspective. Journal of Perioperative Practice.

The path a patient negotiates through an operating department is shaped by its design and layout, which should be determined by infection control requirements to ensure the safety of both patients and practitioners. How this is achieved is discussed in relation to an operating department in a local trust, together with how infection control, and therefore the prevention of surgical site infection, is achieved through hospital policies and key practices within a theatre by theatre practitioners and surgeons.

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