Medical school lecturer awarded prestigious education fellowship

Principal Fellow status is the Academy's highest level of professional recognition, awarded to those whose leadership in higher education has resulted in significant changes of practice and improvements in quality of teaching and care.

Dr Shrewsbury - Senior Lecturer in General Practice – is the first person at BSMS to attain PFHEA status. The award is also held by three other academics from the University of Brighton – Professor Ruth Whittaker (Pro-Vice-Chancellor) Education and Students, Joanna MacDonnell (Director of Education and Students), and Dr David Walker (Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Students).

Dr Shrewsbury said: “A core component to my award has been the work that I have done around inclusion in medical education and practice, especially some of the work I did when re-developing the clinical and community practice modules in Years 1 and 2 here at BSMS.

Dr Duncan Shrewsbury

“One of my firm commitments is to supporting development of faculty, as well as learners, and I am very keen to help people work towards professional recognition through the HEA themselves.”

Professor Juliet Wright, Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning at BSMS, added: "This is a remarkable achievement and unique to Duncan in the medical school. The award is thoroughly deserved and recognises Duncan’s sustained and high-quality work."

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is partnership between the Universities of Brighton and Sussex with the local NHS health community, and seeks to identify research areas in medicine which can make a rapid and real difference to improving medical treatment to deliver more personalised healthcare for patients.