Professor Roberts graduated from Manchester with a degree in Medicine and a BSc in Anatomy. She undertook her early medical training in Manchester and her research in immunological responses to lung tumours at the Paterson Laboratories in Manchester and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. In 1995 she was appointed Senior Lecturer in Transplant Immunology at the University of Manchester and Director of the New Heart New Start Transplant Laboratory at the University Hospital of South Manchester. She always had an interest in medical education both undergraduate and postgraduate. She was Postgraduate Tutor and College Tutor at the University Hospital of South Manchester.
In 2000 she made a decision to change career direction and was appointed Professor of Medical Education and Director of the Medical Education Unit at the University of Leeds. She previously chaired the MBChB committee and had responsibility for the undergraduate course at Leeds.
Her main interests and expertise are in the areas of assessment of competence, professionalism, inter-professional education and widening access and participation. She has published papers on inter-professional education, disabilities and assessment and contributed to the QAA document on benchmarking in medicine. She has examined for the GMC in their PLAB assessment and was a GMC visitor for Medical School undergraduate courses. In 2003 she was appointed by the Secretary of State to sit on the General Osteopathic Council as educational advisor and she chaired their Education Committee. She is an executive member of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) in the UK and chair of the ASME Education Research Group. In 2004 she was elected to the executive committee of the Association of Medical Education in Europe.
Following the successful HEFCE bid in 2005 she became the director of the West Yorkshire Consortium Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CETL) focused on Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) which is a multidisciplinary project involving 5 Higher Education Institutions. From 2006-2008 she was Head of the School of Medicine in Leeds, and in 2009 become Director of the Leeds Institute of Medical Education. In 2009 she was appointed to the General Medical Council. She is a member of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and in July 2010 took over as Chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education.
Lecturer in Transplant Immunology at the University of Manchester and Director of the New Heart New Start Transplant Laboratory at the University Hospital of South Manchester. She always had an interest in medical education both undergraduate and postgraduate. She was Postgraduate Tutor and College Tutor at the University Hospital of South Manchester.
In 2000 she made a decision to change career direction and was appointed Professor of Medical Education and Director of the Medical Education Unit at the University of Leeds. She previously chaired the MBChB committee and had responsibility for the undergraduate course at Leeds.
Her main interests and expertise are in the areas of assessment of competence, professionalism, inter-professional education and widening access and participation. She has published papers on inter-professional education, disabilities and assessment and contributed to the QAA document on benchmarking in medicine. She has examined for the GMC in their PLAB assessment and was a GMC visitor for Medical School undergraduate courses. In 2003 she was appointed by the Secretary of State to sit on the General Osteopathic Council as educational advisor and she chaired their Education Committee. She is an executive member of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) in the UK and chair of the ASME Education Research Group. In 2004 she was elected to the executive committee of the Association of Medical Education in Europe.
Following the successful HEFCE bid in 2005 she became the director of the West Yorkshire Consortium Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CETL) focused on Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) which is a multidisciplinary project involving 5 Higher Education Institutions. From 2006-2008 she was Head of the School of Medicine in Leeds, and in 2009 become Director of the Leeds Institute of Medical Education. In 2009 she was appointed to the General Medical Council.
Current Research Projects
ESRC/GMC Project on transitions
With Sue Kilminster, Miriam Zukas and Naomi Quinton
RCOG project on work based learning tools
With Vikram Jha and Zeryab Setna
Gender issues
With Sue Kilminster and Naomi Quinton
OSCE beyond checklist assessment – the yellow card system
With Dr Katharine Boursicot
Recent Research Projects
GMC disabilities – Gateway project
GMC revalidation project
Setting standards across UK medical schools
Current PhD Students
John Lord: Physical examination of the respiratory system in UK Primary Care
Viktoria Joynes: Does being involved in developing and teaching on an interprofessional education programme have any impact on the formulation of perceptions of professional identity and culture?
Successful previous PhD students
Genevieve Becker: Assessing health worker performance in assisting a mother to learn the skills of hand expression of breast milk
Andrew Brown:
What is required to ensure a competent rheumatologist ultrasonographer?
Assessing the needs and addressing the challenges of developing an educational programme to ensure achievement of competency. - awarded 2007
Vikram Jha: Attitudes to professionalism in medicine: development of a measure - awarded 2007