Our People
Dr Louise Rickard
Research Member of Common Room
Teaching Fellow in Medical Education, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Louise is an experienced educator and researcher, passionate about education and sustainability. She currently works as a Teaching Fellow in Medical Education at Oxford University, where she teaches on the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) Teaching and Education and the MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership. As an educational developer she specifically works to support colleagues, and in promoting best practice teaching, and in programme, module and assessment design. She is specifically interested in dialogic teaching and critical thinking; sustainability, social justice; and experiential learning.
She retains a smaller role as Senior Lecturer in Educational Development with the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development (OCAED) at Brookes University; where she teaches and coaches Staff on the Internal PGCHE (EXPLORE) course, provides internal programme and module design expertise across the university, and is the academic lead for embedding a sustainability mindset across the university. She has in 2024 mentored a handful of Senior staff towards their SF HEA; and regularly supervises MSc and MBA theses at the Business School. Until end of 2021 she worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Business, Sustainability and Environment at the Centre for Environmental policy also at Imperial College.
Louise’s background is in theoretical ecology and sustainability science and policy. She obtained her BSc (Biological Sciences) and PhD (Ecology) at Imperial College, and a PGCE and an MEd (Cambridge), specializing in dialogic and experiential STEM teaching. She was elected Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2019, and received her CMALT with distinction for a project on the peer assessment of groupwork, in 2021.
She’s a canoe coach and leader with Falcon Boat Club in Oxford (https://falconboatclub.org.uk/) and likes taking folk out canoeing on the beautiful Oxford backwaters, and further afield on rivers, lakes and estuaries across the UK and Europe.
She has since 2018 worked prehospital shifts as a FREC 4 first responder for Enhanced Care Services (www.enhancedcareservices.co.uk), whose ethos is all about education and ‘doing it right’.