Professional Development, Thinking Aloud

Patient Mileage is a Fallacy

TLDR/Key Takeaway of this blog: 'Patient Mileage' is an inadequate description of how we learn and develop as physiotherapists. Seeing more patients gives us experience but the actual development comes from the cognitive process of those experiences. The fallacy isn't that experience matters, it's that experience alone produces development. For nearly 10 years I've become… Continue reading Patient Mileage is a Fallacy

artificial-intelligence, Thinking Aloud

I’d prefer to assess the learning process, not products…

You know what... I am going to write a little about this. I finally feel like I understand it. I've really avoiding posting anything about AI at the minute, it's too polarising for this fresh faced (I wish) academic to have an opinion on. I'm not paid to be a 'thinker' in the AI space,… Continue reading I’d prefer to assess the learning process, not products…

Thinking Aloud

How Important is Being an Engaging Lecturer?

If you'd asked me that question when I first started in academia 5 years ago, I'd have said it's the most important. I came from clinical practice where 'education' absolutely wasn't pedagogically guided or grounded, they were corridor conversations drawn out into a 30 minute in service training (IST) essentially... In that role, I found… Continue reading How Important is Being an Engaging Lecturer?

Thinking Aloud

My Introduction to Sensory Integration

In October 2025, I turned up to work expecting a useful training session on sensory integration. What I didn’t expect was for it to quietly reframe how I see engagement in myself, my children, and my students. As a physiotherapist, sensory integration isn’t something I’ve been deeply embedded in. My Occupational Therapy colleagues were far… Continue reading My Introduction to Sensory Integration

Thinking Aloud

Learners Create the Learning Environment

I've recently been inspired by undertaking my MA Dissertation and it's led to a real revelation in my approach to leading a classroom - I'm not in as much control as I think I am... I'm sure this isn't a revelation to other lecturers/tutors/teachers but its a pretty critical one for me. When I came… Continue reading Learners Create the Learning Environment