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Dr Danica Sims

Senior departmental lecturer

Department of Education

PhD, MScMed, BMedScHons, BSc (University of Cape Town)

Danica studied at the University of Cape Town (2011-2019) in South Africa (BSc, BMedScHons, MScMed, PhD) before joining the University of the Western Cape as an educationalist (2020). She joined Oxford as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education in 2023, and is the Course Director for the MSc in Medical Education programme.

The RhodesMustFall student-led protests in South Africa (2015), calling for free, decolonised Higher Education, sparked her jump from biomedical research to educational research. Her PhD in Health Sciences Education explored clinician-educators’ conceptions of assessment, and factors influencing their assessment practices, in medical programmes in diverse Southern settings.

Her research interests include assessment and feedback, curriculum transformation, technology-enhanced education, faculty development, critical and alternative qualitative research methodologies, and issues of social and epistemic justice in medical and health professions education.