I’m an academic and researcher working on technology-enhanced scholarship and artificial intelligence in health professions education. I’m also the Director of Digital Innovation in the School of Health and Care Sciences at the University of Lincoln.
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Featured work
Scholar: Making sense of our complex world. My upcoming book.
Context sovereignty for AI-supported learning. My latest article (preprint)
Emergent scholarship is a forward-looking, interdisciplinary approach to knowledge creation
Scholar: Making sense of our complex world
Scholar is my upcoming book on bridging the gap between understanding complex problems and knowing what to do about them. Aimed at busy professionals, parents, and community members, it provides a systematic framework for building knowledge to deal with the kinds of everyday challenges we all face.
Artificial intelligence
Generative AI represents a fundamental shift in how we interact with technology and will profoundly affect society. I’m trying to better understand its implications for professional education.
- Clinical AI scribes redistribute narrative control in medical consultations, creating unresolved tensions between equity and manipulation. The same mechanisms that might help marginalised patients push back against dismissive care could […]
- AI meeting scribes haven't introduced new manipulation tactics—they've systematized existing ones. Meeting dynamics have always been adversarial: controlling agendas, timing interventions, using particular terminology. What's changed is these dynamics are […]
- AI in FTP processes involves multiple stakeholders using tools episodically and without clear frameworks—creating risks and missed opportunities. Organisations face a fundamental choice: systematic integration with explicit frameworks that strengthen […]
- Earlier today I gave the Founder's Lecture at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists conference in Newport. I've been working on the idea of 'context sovereignty' as a way to think […]
Head Space
Calm productivity advice for academics who feel like they don’t have the time or cognitive energy to engage in meaningful, high-value scholarship.
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- You've figured something out that could help others. But how to share what you've learned without seeming like a know-it-all? The skill isn't whether to share, it's knowing what's worth […]
- You're probably not testing your assumptions—you're confirming them. Before your next big decisi, use this method to test your assumptions: write down what you currently believe, generate alternatives that would […]
- Most approaches to AI for academics stop at prompting techniques. But the academics most comfortable with AI have progressed through three stages: substitution, adaptation, and transformation. This progression develops context […]
- Your research is scattered across browser bookmarks, note apps, screenshots, and email drafts. When you need information, you can't find it. The solution isn't better organisation within each platform—it's refusing […]
Academic presentations
A collection of presentations I’ve given for conferences, professional organisations, and institutional development.
- AI in FTP processes involves multiple stakeholders using tools episodically and without clear frameworks—creating risks and missed opportunities. Organisations face a fundamental choice: systematic integration with explicit frameworks that strengthen […]
- Earlier today I gave the Founder's Lecture at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists conference in Newport. I've been working on the idea of 'context sovereignty' as a way to think […]
- Institutional responses to AI—detection software, control policies—reveal that education has always measured proxies for learning rather than learning itself. PBL's foundational commitments to agency, collaborative knowledge construction, and authentic problems […]
- Earlier today I gave a presentation on generative AI in healthcare at the Lincolnshire AHP conference, focusing on the practical implications of the technology for clinicians. The presentation covered how […]
In Beta newsletters
Every month, we share three items related to a topic in higher education.
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- ..ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that speaks work ethic, or toughness, or […]
- Knowledge translation transforms research into action, addressing healthcare's persistent "know-do" gap. By using structured frameworks like the knowledge-to-action cycle, we can systematically identify problems, adapt evidence to local contexts, overcome […]
- In times of uncertainty, strategic leadership in higher education requires seeing beyond immediate pressures to envision possibilities others might miss. Innovation demands reimagining how we prepare graduates for changing professional […]
- Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, […]
Physiopedia courses
Two short courses I created for Physiopedia Plus.
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AI Masterclass
This programme aims to introduce the capabilities of AI in healthcare education, research, clinical practice and health systems.
Learning to Learn
Empowering learners by developing new habits and skills.
In Beta podcasts
A virtual community of physiotherapy educators who experiment with different approaches to teaching and learning. In these semi-regular conversations we talk about a wide range of topics relevant to professional education.
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- In this episode of the In Beta podcast, we explore an innovative approach to curriculum design in physiotherapy education, where Ben shares his vision for a new fourth-year module called […]
- In this episode, we explore Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs), an innovative approach to student and staff mobility in physiotherapy education. These short-term, intensive courses combine physical mobility with virtual learning, […]
- In this conversation Leanne Wiles and Dean Walker discuss how they used generative AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to simulate patient interactions for students in physiotherapy education, enhancing their […]
- In this episode, Dr. Danelle Hess discusses the challenges physiotherapy students face during clinical placements in South Africa, such as managing caseloads with minimal supervision and dealing with complex cases […]
Thinking in public
Recordings of presentations, as well as some of my working processes, aimed at improving my scholarship.
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