Louise Rickard

I am passionate about education and educational development. I teach on the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) Teaching and Education and the MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership.

My background is in theoretical evolutionary ecology and modelling, indicators and metrics, and sustainability science and policy. I worked for the EU 1998-2008 and then internationally, applying those skills, providing credible and legitimate data, analyses and assessments to underpin evidence-based decision and policy making.  

I have been actively teaching since my PhD, gaining a PGCE  with QTS and and MEd from Cambridge, where I focussed on dialogic teaching and critical thinking; and experiential learning in the "teachable moment" wherever that may be-  on the river or in the mountains or woods.  I was elected FHEA in 2017 and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2019, and received my CMALT with distinction for a project on the peer assessment of groupwork, in 2021.

I have an interest in supporting colleagues in their teaching and promoting best practice both in the practice of teaching; and in programme, module and assessment design and evaluation. I am an actively involved in research into AI and education. I currently teach, coach and offer consultancy in these areas.

Until recently I was a Senior Lecturer in Educational Development with the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development (OCAED) at Brookes University; where I taught and coached Staff on the Internal PGCHE (EXPLORE) course, mentoring faculty towards their FHEA and a handful of Senior staff towards their SF HEA; and providing consultancy support in programme and assessment development and quality.

Outside work I love messing about in canoes and getting people out into nature and the wilderness, especially in the arctic. I am a level 3 canoe coach, and a wilderness first responder, wilderness guide and expedition leader.