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 pedagogyBiography
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 experience: Community as a Pharmacist-in-Charge (locums), Hospital Pharmacist as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist,...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 experience: Community as a Pharmacist-in-Charge (locums), Hospital Pharmacist as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmaceutical Industry as a CRA), with academic teaching experience (>24 years) across three universities (USYD, UTS and UNSW)
Appointed in 2024 (one of 5 in NSW) to Fellow at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (FPS)
Nominated by the Minister for Health and Appointed by the Governor as the Deputy President on the Pharmacy Council of NSW.
Recipient of 2024 Senior Fellow in Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK
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: Faculty of Health at UTS and the 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, GenAI in education, interprofessional education, collaboration and practice.
Dr Lucas has published over 90 manuscripts/ conference papers 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
Qualifications: Dr Cherie Lucas, PhD, BPharm, GradCertEduStud (Higher Ed), FPS, SFHEA
Senior Fellow Higher Education (SFHEA) from AdvanceHE
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
Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (FPS)
My Awards
National Recognition: Recipient of the 2019 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation- Individual Category - Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.
2024- Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (FPS)
2024- Awarded Senior Fellow in Higher Education by AdvanceHE UK (SFHE)
2024- Recipient Conference Paper Highly Commended Award in collaboration with the research team at the University of Sydney, Project led by Prof Tamara Power: Highly Commended Paper Award, NETNEP24 Conference, Singapore
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
Location
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7857-2338