Simon Riley Email & Phone Number

My role is primarily leadership and management in teaching. I am co-Director of Teaching for the Edinburgh Futures Institute (https://efi.ed.ac.uk/), and also the Director of Teaching for the Deanery of Clinical Sciences in Edinburgh Medical School.My teaching interests lie in the pedagogy of Higher Education, exploring and developing student's autonomy to co-create their own curriculum through experiential learning, establishing reflective learning skills, and using portfolios for learning. So, in my practice, I am the academic lead for an institution-wide initiative called 'Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses' (SLICCs) , where students are given autonomy to co-create their own experiential learning course that bears academic credit. If you want to know more, here is a short blog summary (http://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/student-led-individually-created-courses-sliccs-learning-and-teaching-beyond-disciplinary-silos/) and the SLICC information site (https://www.ed.ac.uk/sliccs/). In the undergraduate medicine programme, I am lead for Student Selected Components (SSCs), where students choose specialties and projects, where they gain research skills, and insight into career options.

Listed skills include Science, Medical Education, Confocal Microscopy, Molecular Biology, and 18 others.