
Sian Rosser
Academic and research departments
School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.About
Biography
My role as a Veterinary Clinical Teaching Fellow utilises my experience gained in over 20 years in first opinion practice to mentor and teach our final years. I also support our network of partner practices in their engagement with the distributed final year model. My aim as Co-Admissions Tutor is for Surrey to choose students who are well aligned for our innovative course and have the resilience and aptitude to succeed in our profession.
Publications
There has been growing interest in knowledge exchange (KE) activities as a result of recent calls for higher education establishments in the UK to provide more evidence of how they serve society for the benefit of the economy, the public and the community. KE has been defined as "A collaborative, creative endeavor that translates knowledge and research into impact in society and the economy," where this exchange takes the form of sharing knowledge, experience, ideas, evidence, or expertise. While well established in the context of research, it is less clear what KE activities are in the context of teaching. The aim of this project was to use a collaborative approach to identify types of KE activity relevant for veterinary educators and undergraduate students (pre-veterinary registration), and ways of measuring these activities. Initially, a literature search identified four main overarching categories of interactions that KE activities for veterinary educators and undergraduate students could be assigned to: people-based activities, problem-solving activities, commercialization activities, and community activities. Second, a workshop with members of the wider veterinary education community evaluated these lists of activities and discussed how the impact of these could be measured. The lists generated provide a starting point for understanding how educators and undergraduate students can maximize their impact in relation to KE activities. It is expected that over time these will be built upon to represent the breadth of current and future activities undertaken in the clinical sciences. While the focus is on veterinary education, this framework can be applied to reviewing KE in a range of health care and client-facing disciplines.