Summary
Nikki is Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Education for the Educational Development Unit and has 20 years' experience as a teacher and educationalist within the higher, secondary and charity sectors. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Initially a Modern History graduate from Christ Church, Oxford, she stayed on to complete a PGCE and then spent six years teaching in the secondary education sector: during which time she also completed a part-time BSc (Hons) in Psychology, gaining First Class Honours. She then combined an MSc in Psychological Research Methods with a part-time role for a national charity, designing and delivering a government-funded schools project to promote positive attitudes and behaviours towards people with disfigurements. Her MSc project was an exploratory study into teachers’ experiences of 'work-life balance', and she maintains a strong interest in the personal and contextual issues that can influence teachers’ approaches to their work.
Since 2011, Nikki has worked primarily in higher and medical education: initially as an educationalist at the Royal College of Physicians and then as an Associate Lecturer for The Open University and educational consultant within the charity sector. Since joining Imperial in 2016 she has led the Faculty of Medicine workshop strand for the EDU and supports, teaches and supervises within the range of other provision led by CHERS: including the STAR programme and the MEd in University Learning and Teaching. Nikki is also the coordinator for the CHERSNet network to promote and support educational scholarship across Imperial.