Researcher

Dr Cherie Lucas

My Expertise

 Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice, Cultural responsiveness and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities education, Educational psychology, Professional education and training, Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy, Curriculum and pedagogy

Biography

Nexus Fellow - University of NSW, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Recipient of the AAUT (Australian Awards for University Teaching) Citation in the Individual Category - Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. Refer to Awards section for further information on other awards and recognition.

Registered pharmacist (>34 years), with academic teaching experience (>24 years).

Resides as a Member on the Pharmacy Council of NSW.

Attained all...view more

Nexus Fellow - University of NSW, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Recipient of the AAUT (Australian Awards for University Teaching) Citation in the Individual Category - Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. Refer to Awards section for further information on other awards and recognition.

Registered pharmacist (>34 years), with academic teaching experience (>24 years).

Resides as a Member on the Pharmacy Council of NSW.

Attained all relevant qualifications at the University of Sydney, including the Grad Cert in Educational Studies (Higher Education) (refer qualifications section).

Former academic instructor, practitioner-teacher, and Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney (16 years) and former Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) for the Masters' program (8 years). Dr Lucas holds additional Adjunct Fellow positions for: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health at UTS and Connected Intelligence Centre, UTS. 

Dr Lucas currently holds the following research related positions:

Associate Editor | Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy (ERCSP)

Associate Editor | Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning (CPTL)

Guest Editor Special Issue- AI in Health Education and Practice| ERCSP

Review Editor | Frontiers in Pharmacology – Drugs Outcomes Research and Policies

Editor and Peer Coach | Pulses, International Scholarly Academic Blog

Editorial Board | Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP)

Chair of The Research, Education and Communications Committee |The Pharmacy Council of NSW

 

Currently, a Nexus Fellow in the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW.  Research areas are focused on curriculum instruction, design, assessment, feedback and reflective practice in pharmacy education, interprofessional education, collaboration and practice. 

Dr Lucas has published over 90 manuscripts with greater than 57 manuscripts as First or Senior last author. 

A selection of current research publications by Dr Lucas are included in this profile below. For all other publications please review ResearchGate, ORCID profiles (as listed on links below). 

 

 

 

 

 

 


My Grants

For details related to Grants received, review Dr Lucas' ORCID Profile:  Cherie Lucas (0000-0002-7857-2338) - ORCID


My Qualifications

 PhD, Pharmacy, Curriculum Instruction, design, assessment and feedback (University of Sydney);

 Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Educ), University of Sydney;

 Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm), University of Sydney

 

 

 

 


My Awards

National Recognition: Recipient of the 2019 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation- Individual Category - Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.

2023- Recipient of the Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching Citation as Project Lead: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of the  WRAP Toolkit (Working Respectfully with Aboriginal Peoples' Toolkit)

2020- Recipient of the Dean's Award for Teaching Innovation

2020- Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor Learning and Teaching Citation as Project Lead: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of the RIPE-N model (Reflective Interprofessional   Education NETWORK Model) 

2018- Recipient of the Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching Citation as Project Lead: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of the RIPE model (Reflective Interprofessional Education)

2017- Recipient in collaboration with the research team at the Connected Intelligence Centre, UTS -Best Full Paper, Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference LAK17, Canada

2017- Recipient of the Teaching Innovation Award, Pharmacy Education Symposium, Italy

 

 

 


My Research Activities

Dr Lucas' educational research informs her teaching practices. 

The link to Dr Lucas'  myEducation Portfolio outlines exemplars from her research. 


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

 Health Education and Training, Pharmacy Education and Pharmacy Practice, Teaching and Learning related to Health Disciplines, Interprofessional Education, Training and Collaboration, Simulation. 


Currently supervising

  Co-Supervision of Ms Carley Jans, PhD Candidate - Health Education in the Metaverse

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