Professor Deanne Lynn Clouder

National Teaching Fellow 2007 Dr Lynn Clouder is a Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Interprofessional e-Learning (CIPeL), a collaborative CETL between Coventry and Sheffield Hallam Universities. Much of Lynn's teaching and pedagogical innovation has occurred in the context of health and social care education. Originally a physiotherapist, she practiced for 12 years prior to entering academia and is particularly interested in the ways in which students learn in the workplace and how new graduates negotiate the transition into practice. One of Lynn's most influential and enduring innovations in this respect was the introduction of a caseload management module into the undergraduate physiotherapy curriculum at Coventry University, which has now run for many years and has been described by a graduate as "possibly the best thing that could have prepared us for real work". Lynn's PhD thesis was on professional socialisation and identity development, in which she maintains an enthusiastic interest. Her interest in e-learning increased following the development of an online module to help chaperone students through their first placement experience through encouraging reflective dialogue with their peers. As a consequence she was well placed to take on the responsibility of the Directorship of the CIPeL CETL. Not surprisingly she is interested in the interface between professional and interprofessional learning and working. Her research and development activities include experimenting with curriculum design models, use of learning resources, involving final year students in leading interprofessional learning (IPL) for their younger peers and inquiry into online IPL discourse. Being relatively new to the IPL arena means she has a healthy scepticism about many of the taken-for-granted assumptions surrounding IPL and she hopes to contribute to the ongoing debate about how best to promote IPL through rigorously conducted research and evaluation. However, she is also developing a set of tools for curriculum design and redesign that address major issues with which many universities find challenging; retention, employability and diversity and internationalisation. Lynn is well published in professional and higher education peer reviewed journals and is currently co-editing two books and contributing to a Health Science and Practice Occasional Paper on Connecting Reflective Learning, Teaching and Assessment.