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EDU Annual Report 2013-14

MEd ULT

The Master’s programme was launched in 2008 and remodelled as
separate PG Diploma and Master’s stages in 2011-12, in keeping
with Imperial’s tripartite framework for taught postgraduate
programmes. The new variant of the MEd ULT is part-time and
intended for staff, clinicians and others who have successfully
completed the related PG Diploma ULT stage.

Like the previous stages, the MEd ULT is practice- as practitioners, use the critical engagement with
based and designed to be flexible. The MEd stage educational theory gained in the PG Diploma and
builds on the previous PG Certificate and Diploma publish educational research relating to their
and introduces students to methods of educational professional and disciplinary context. Twelve
research. In particular, it provides an introduction to students are currently enrolled on this stage of the
research approaches drawn from the social sciences programme.
and humanities.

Five students successfully completed the programme
in 2014, submitting dissertations on a range of
educational topics including transitions from pre
-clinical to clinical years in undergraduate medical
degrees, using concept maps in Physics, medical
students’ use of role models and conceptions of
leadership in engineering education.

Students have gone on to present their work at
both internal events such as Education Day and
Perspectives in Education as well as external
conferences. This illustrates how the MEd ULT
allows participants to build on their experience

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