Hamshire Claire

• PhD, PFHEA, NTF, MSc(Res), PGCE, GradDipPhys
• Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Salford

The early withdrawal of students from healthcare education programmes, particularly nursing, is an international concern and, despite considerable investment, retention rates have remained stagnant. Here, a regional study of healthcare student retention is used as an example to frame the challenge of student attrition using a concept from policy de...

Much has been written on student attrition from healthcare programmes and we know that it is often multifactorial. However in order to reduce attrition we need to gain a greater understanding of how multiple factors impact upon and compound one another to prompt a student to decide to leave. The purpose of this study was to explore healthcare stude...

It is important that nursing students are adequately supported during their clinical practice placements in order to promote effective learning and reduce student attrition. Educators have an important role and this paper offers an interactive tool, ‘PLATO’, (The Practice Learning and Teaching Orientations Tool) to support them to meaningfully enga...

Aims and objectives: To explore the perceived unfairness experienced by student nurses during their undergraduate clinical placements. Background: It is important that student nurses feel supported by practice staff during their clinical placement education experiences. However, it has been reported that learners can feel ignored, unsupported an...

The purpose of this study was to explore how peer support schemes can be used to facilitate meaningful relationships and a sense of belonging for underrepresented students. Using three case studies, the study explored and compared peer support leaders’ narratives about their experiences at three universities: one in the United Kingdom (UK), one in...

Background: Practice-based education is an essential component of pre-registration physiotherapy programs, and there is a need for a contemporary review of practice-based educational experiences. Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore physiotherapy practice educators' experiences of supporting learners to inform considerations for future...

This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in college and university set...

This case study offers reflections on a student-led collaboration between the university and its student representative body (the Students’ Union) and outlines the successes and challenges of partnership to address institutional cultural change. The project was set up to improve students’ experiences and raise awareness of the existence of differen...

Background: This article explores the use of a practice development approach to support nursing students’ engagement in learning partnerships in clinical practice settings. Aim: To reflect, using the model proposed by Rolfe and colleagues (2001), on the development of ‘PLATO’ – an educational tool to help nursing students explore their role in buil...

Aim The two aims of this study were, first, to explore nursing students’ experiences and perspectives of reporting poor care and second, examine the process by which they raised concerns. Background The nursing literature is replete with studies which explore nursing students’ experiences of clinical placement. However only a small number explore...

Background: Online health information-seeking is thought to be common among pregnant women, and the use of digital media has been widely adopted. Women with pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain (PLPP) are often disappointed with the volume and content of condition-related information offered by their health care providers and alternative modes of inf...

Virtual simulation can provide high-quality learning experiences through innovative and engaging activities while also overcoming some of the constraints associated with physical simulation. We developed a virtual community, called Birley Place, to facilitate simulation-based learning activities. Adopting a novel approach, we modelled the virtual c...

Knowledge remains timely in education. The need for academics to contemplate its relevance, worth, use and everything in-between deems a continuous intellectual project, rather than a conundrum to be solved. This book takes the South African context by the horns as it challenges the often dormant and traditionalist ways in which higher education sp...

Background: It is predicted that care home provision for older people will need to increase significantly over the next 30 years, requiring a skilled workforce that expands to meet this growing need. Innovative practice development strategies are required to support the existing workforce and provide incentives to help recruit new staff. Aim: This...

The principles of diversity and inclusion are valued across the higher education sector, but the ways in which these principles are translated into pedagogic practice are not always evident. Students who are first in their family to attend university continue to report barriers to full participation in university life. They are more likely to leave...

Introduction Logistical constraints associated with large cohorts provide barriers to the delivery of simulation-based education (SBE) in health and social care education. Williams et al. (2020) suggested that virtual simulation can alleviate these constraints whilst providing a quality learning experience. Walia et al. (2017) showed that effective...

Background While much is known about nursing students' clinical placement experiences in general, less has been reported about their specific encounters with poor care delivery. A few small-scale qualitative studies have been undertaken, which suggest that nursing students do witness poor care but often decide not to act on what they see. This stud...

Introduction The games described in this chapter both had their beginnings in research projects: one exploring students' perceptions of their higher education experiences (Staying the Course), and the other investigating staff experiences of curriculum development (Supporting Responsive Curricula). Neither project was initially tasked with developi...

Reframing Space for Learning showcases the work of National Teaching Fellows offering practical, evidence-based and imaginative guidance on using space and place to improve the student experience in contemporary university teaching and learning. Consisting of 19 chapters and 31 case studies including contributions from 33 NTFs it uniquely explores...

Benchmarking is used in higher education as a means to improve and compare performance. Comparative metric benchmarks may take two forms, based on direct standardization (DS) or indirect standardization (IS). DS can be used to measure variation in performance between institutions, controlling for intrinsic differences at each institution (e.g. cont...

Over the past few decades universities have opened their doors to students whose parents and grandparents were historically excluded from societal participation in higher education for reasons associated with racial, ethnic, socio-economic and/or linguistic diversity. Many of these students are first generation - or first in their family to attend...

Clinical placements are central to physiotherapy students’ education, providing an environment in which students can apply learning they have been introduced to in academic settings. However placement learning has been identified as fraught with problems and resultant stress, and there is limited evidence available on what exactly makes a good plac...

University policies are increasingly developed with reference to students’ learning experiences, with a focus on the concept of the ‘student voice’. Yet the ‘student voice’ is difficult to define and emphasis is often placed on numerical performance indicators. A diverse student population has wide-ranging educational experiences, which may not be...

Aims and objectives: To explore the concept of role modelling in undergraduate nurse education and its effect on the personal and professional development of student nurses. Background: Effective educative strategies are important for student nurses, who have to cope with learning in both clinical and university settings. Given the contemporary...

There is an increasing requirement in higher education (HE) worldwide to deliver excellence. Benchmarking is widely used for this purpose, but methodological approaches to the creation of benchmark metrics vary greatly. Approaches require selection of factors for inclusion and subsequent calculation of benchmarks for comparison. We describe an appr...

Internationalising curricula, is often described as desirable to enhance students’ learning experiences and programme quality. Some staff and students are able to gain international experience through exchanges, but it is not an opportunity available to all in higher education. Internationalisation therefore needs to be embedded throughout programm...

Background: Student experience is an international concern and recent research has focused on initiatives to improve students’ learning experiences and ultimately reduce attrition levels. Objective: To determine similarities and differences between students’ perceptions of their learning experiences between 2011 and 2015 in relation to campus-based...

This pilot study explored the value of story writing to understand the learning needs of undergraduate nursing students during their first clinical placement. Early findings suggest that story writing affords freedom to express ideas and feelings, and could be used as an additional method alongside the current placement evaluation questionnaire to...

This paper reports on a regional study of undergraduate healthcare students’ expectations and perceptions of their learning experiences, at nine institutions in the North West of England. The purpose of the study was to gain a greater insight into students’ stories to identify factors that contributed to both student satisfaction and their learning...

This three-year, longitudinal, narrative study sought to explore physiotherapy students’ stories of their undergraduate experiences to gain an insight into the process of being a student, with an interpretation of the philosophy of Heidegger as a possible horizon for understanding. The central aim was to listen to students’ stories told in their ow...

This paper presents an overview of a two-year collaborative partnership project between Manchester Metropolitan University and three specialist schools in Manchester, UK. The purpose of the research was to work with a varied group of children and young people experiencing communication impairments and learning disabilities to gain an insight into t...

This paper reports on a mixed methods, regional study of undergraduate healthcare students’ expectations and perceptions of their programmes, at nine institutions in the North West of England. Concerns about disengagement and current levels of attrition from some programmes within the UK have emphasised the need to gain a greater insight into stude...

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Learning transitions are not simply linear, but an iterative process of ‘becoming’ over time, as students transform and gain new skills, and the initial transition to university can be particularly complex as some students struggle to adapt to new environments and styles of learning. Induction support across MMU varies, therefore to identify best p...

This study examines in-depth the experiences of a mature, international student during her first year at university in the UK, to explore the different dimensions of her learning transitions. The aim was to gain an in-depth understanding into the factors that influenced a student's on-going development and transformation over their first year; ther...

Enhancing the student experience, and in particular student engagement, has become a primary focus of Higher Education, It is particularly in sharp focus as higher education moves forward into the uncertain world of high student fees and a developed higher education market. Student engagement is a hot topic, in considering how to offer 'value' and...

The transition to higher education can be problematic for some students as they adapt to institutional procedures and degree level working at the same time as developing new social networks. To help facilitate these complex transitions institutions are increasingly turning towards digital technologies to provide both flexible access to resources an...

This paper reports on students’ views of support services identified through the findings of a study of health professions student attrition in the North West of England. Health professions programmes attract a diverse student population and their educational experience is dissimilar to the general student population in a number of ways, as they st...

The initial transition to higher education can be difficult for some students as they adapt to the institutional habitus (Thomas 2002) and for many students this can be one of the most significant and difficult learning transitions they will make (Yorke & Longden 2007). To help facilitate this complex transition the authors used the data from a reg...