Kate Thomson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Thomson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3726-1883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Variation in clinical educators’ understanding of being an expert clinical educator
Being a clinical educator in real-practice settings is an important role adopted by many allied heath clinicians, enabling pre-qualifying students to develop the professional capabilities and work-readiness needed for practice. Although there are some characteristics and impacts associated with what clinical educator expertise looks like, developmental trajectories of clinical educators and what it takes to develop this expertise are unknown. Usi…
Students’ informal learning interactions in health professions education
Despite being recognised as complementary to formal learning, informal learning is not yet well understood. Using a qualitative synthesis approach, we systematically reviewed how students’ informal learning interactions are represented in health professions education research. Thirty-five articles were identified. Our three-stage analysis identified five themes: (1) conceptualisations and theoretical underpinning; (2) the what of informal learnin…
The Role of Social Prescribing Interventions in Addressing Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom
Background: Social prescribing (SP), developed in the United Kingdom through general practice, has seen varied implementation worldwide, influenced by cultural, healthcare and political contexts. Among the various efforts to reduce health inequalities among individuals and groups, social prescribing has been proposed as a key intervention. Despite growing interest, there is a need for a critical examination of social prescribing’s role in address…
Adapting the Advance group program for digitally-supported delivery to reduce intimate partner violence by men in substance use treatment
The digitally-supported delivery of ADVANCE-D was feasible and acceptable. Remote delivery has applicability post-pandemic, providing greater flexibility and access. Given the small sample size and study design, we do not know if reductions in IPV were due to ADVANCE-D, time, participant factors, or chance. More research is needed before conclusions can be made about the efficacy of ADVANCE-D
The experiences of human resource professionals in managing career development of an ageing workforce
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the experience of human resource (HR) professionals in managing career development for older workers. It focuses on the influence of personal, social and organisational experiences of HR professionals on (1) their approach to career development of older workers and (2) their organisation's career development practices for older workers. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through indi…
Substance Use and Intimate Partner Abuse (IPA)
Intimate partner abuse (IPA) is a pervasive public health and human rights issue disproportionately affecting women. There is a complex link between IPA and substance use; substance use can increase both the frequency and severity of IPA. Pathway models have been applied to explore heterogeneous trajectories into other behaviours and to identify areas for intervention. This approach has not previously been applied in the area of substance use and…
Borders, paths and orientations
While higher education (HE) is entrenched as a context for scholarly inquiry in Australian universities, there remains contest about it as a research field. Unlike other forms of ‘Education’, in Australia there is no undergraduate programme inducting students into HE's key questions, scholars, and inquiry modes. For new doctoral students, learning to make an original contribution to a field described as a practice, a discipline, and context is a …
Ethics Education Learning Outcomes for Health Professions Students
When I say … informal conversations
The latest instalment of the 'When I Say...' series highlights the importance of informal conversations for health professional education and invites us to reconsider how we initiate and create spaces for students and practitioners to learn
The role of informal conversations in developing university teaching
Within workplace contexts, professionals learn from colleagues by engaging in informal conversations, yet little is known about the contribution these types of conversations make to how academics develop as teachers. Taking a socio-cultural perspective, this article reports on the experience of mid-career academics in conversations about teaching within their departmental contexts. This study drew on semi-structured interviews with 24 academic st…
Professional learning in higher education
Previous research on professional learning has identified that face-to-face consultation is an effective approach to support academics’ learning from student feedback. However, this approach is labour and time intensive, and does not necessarily provide all academics with just-in-time support. In this article, we describe an alternative approach, which involves the creation of Ask Charlie , a mobile website that visually represents results from s…
Black African migrants' perceptions of cancer
Purpose Cancer discussion is perceived as a taboo subject among different cultures and societies including Africans. This perception has caused limited knowledge about the disease and prevented some from seeking early diagnosis and treatment. With West Africans now living in western societies where cancer is openly discussed, this study aims to explore how black Africans perceive the disease and the implications for healthcare. Design/methodology…
Regional Welfare System Developments in Russia
Micro‐level studies of welfare service developments are largely absent from the literature on Russian social policy issues, which tends to concentrate on macro‐level social security arrangements. This paper highlights the emergence of community‐based social services in the post‐1991 era, examining their development in two provincial Russian cities, based on an empirical study carried out in 1998. The paper adds to a growing literature which seeks…
Antibody Politic
Regional Welfare System Developments in Russia
Micro‐level studies of welfare service developments are largely absent from the literature on Russian social policy issues, which tends to concentrate on macro‐level social security arrangements. This paper highlights the emergence of community‐based social services in the post‐1991 era, examining their development in two provincial Russian cities, based on an empirical study carried out in 1998. The paper adds to a growing literature which seeks…
The role of informal conversations in developing university teaching
Within workplace contexts, professionals learn from colleagues by engaging in informal conversations, yet little is known about the contribution these types of conversations make to how academics develop as teachers. Taking a socio-cultural perspective, this article reports on the experience of mid-career academics in conversations about teaching within their departmental contexts. This study drew on semi-structured interviews with 24 academic st…
Antibody Politic
Regional Welfare System Developments in Russia
Micro‐level studies of welfare service developments are largely absent from the literature on Russian social policy issues, which tends to concentrate on macro‐level social security arrangements. This paper highlights the emergence of community‐based social services in the post‐1991 era, examining their development in two provincial Russian cities, based on an empirical study carried out in 1998. The paper adds to a growing literature which seeks…
Black African migrants' perceptions of cancer
Purpose Cancer discussion is perceived as a taboo subject among different cultures and societies including Africans. This perception has caused limited knowledge about the disease and prevented some from seeking early diagnosis and treatment. With West Africans now living in western societies where cancer is openly discussed, this study aims to explore how black Africans perceive the disease and the implications for healthcare. Design/methodology…
Professional learning in higher education
Previous research on professional learning has identified that face-to-face consultation is an effective approach to support academics’ learning from student feedback. However, this approach is labour and time intensive, and does not necessarily provide all academics with just-in-time support. In this article, we describe an alternative approach, which involves the creation of Ask Charlie , a mobile website that visually represents results from s…
The role of informal conversations in developing university teaching
Within workplace contexts, professionals learn from colleagues by engaging in informal conversations, yet little is known about the contribution these types of conversations make to how academics develop as teachers. Taking a socio-cultural perspective, this article reports on the experience of mid-career academics in conversations about teaching within their departmental contexts. This study drew on semi-structured interviews with 24 academic st…
When I say … informal conversations
The latest instalment of the 'When I Say...' series highlights the importance of informal conversations for health professional education and invites us to reconsider how we initiate and create spaces for students and practitioners to learn
Borders, paths and orientations
While higher education (HE) is entrenched as a context for scholarly inquiry in Australian universities, there remains contest about it as a research field. Unlike other forms of ‘Education’, in Australia there is no undergraduate programme inducting students into HE's key questions, scholars, and inquiry modes. For new doctoral students, learning to make an original contribution to a field described as a practice, a discipline, and context is a …
Ethics Education Learning Outcomes for Health Professions Students
The experiences of human resource professionals in managing career development of an ageing workforce
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the experience of human resource (HR) professionals in managing career development for older workers. It focuses on the influence of personal, social and organisational experiences of HR professionals on (1) their approach to career development of older workers and (2) their organisation's career development practices for older workers. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through indi…
Substance Use and Intimate Partner Abuse (IPA)
Intimate partner abuse (IPA) is a pervasive public health and human rights issue disproportionately affecting women. There is a complex link between IPA and substance use; substance use can increase both the frequency and severity of IPA. Pathway models have been applied to explore heterogeneous trajectories into other behaviours and to identify areas for intervention. This approach has not previously been applied in the area of substance use and…
Adapting the Advance group program for digitally-supported delivery to reduce intimate partner violence by men in substance use treatment
The digitally-supported delivery of ADVANCE-D was feasible and acceptable. Remote delivery has applicability post-pandemic, providing greater flexibility and access. Given the small sample size and study design, we do not know if reductions in IPV were due to ADVANCE-D, time, participant factors, or chance. More research is needed before conclusions can be made about the efficacy of ADVANCE-D
Students’ informal learning interactions in health professions education
Despite being recognised as complementary to formal learning, informal learning is not yet well understood. Using a qualitative synthesis approach, we systematically reviewed how students’ informal learning interactions are represented in health professions education research. Thirty-five articles were identified. Our three-stage analysis identified five themes: (1) conceptualisations and theoretical underpinning; (2) the what of informal learnin…
The Role of Social Prescribing Interventions in Addressing Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom
Background: Social prescribing (SP), developed in the United Kingdom through general practice, has seen varied implementation worldwide, influenced by cultural, healthcare and political contexts. Among the various efforts to reduce health inequalities among individuals and groups, social prescribing has been proposed as a key intervention. Despite growing interest, there is a need for a critical examination of social prescribing’s role in address…
Variation in clinical educators’ understanding of being an expert clinical educator
Being a clinical educator in real-practice settings is an important role adopted by many allied heath clinicians, enabling pre-qualifying students to develop the professional capabilities and work-readiness needed for practice. Although there are some characteristics and impacts associated with what clinical educator expertise looks like, developmental trajectories of clinical educators and what it takes to develop this expertise are unknown. Usi…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (3 works)