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Kim Edwards

Interim Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, Professor of Sport Exercise and Nutrition Education, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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    Queen's Medical Centre
    Nottingham
    NG7 2UH
    UK
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Biography

Kim Edwards is a Professor of Sport Exercise and Nutrition Education in the School of Medicine, University of Nottingham. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is Interim Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of the University's overarching teaching and curriculum development strategy. Kim is also the Chair of the University Quality and Standards Committee, which oversees the application of all University regulations, policies and procedures in respect to academic quality and standards, providing leadership and direction to the committee in line with University strategic objectives.

She served as Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Director Postgraduate Taught Education and Student Experience from 2016-2022, and as the Academic Unit Lead for Postgraduate Taught Education from 2011-2024. She remains closely involved with the two masters courses that she used to be Course Director for (MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine and MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Medicine), teaching on the courses and providing research supervision. She has long been a supporter of the Nottingham Recognition Scheme and has mentored hundreds of staff across multiple Schools to achieve recognition with Advance HE.

She has been an External Examiner at the Universities of Middlesex, Staffordshire, Teesside, UCLAN, UCL, Essex and Aegean Omiros College, Greece, as well as validating and standard setting for the Faculty for Sports Exercise Medicine. Collectively, this gives her a very broad knowledge of university processes, assessment and quality assurance of teaching and learning.

She is the Deputy Editor (Statistics) for the European Spine Journal. She is currently a consultant for the National Joint Registry. She served as a consultant for Public Health England, advised the Finnish government on physical activity funding, and provided evidence to the House of Lords on sport and recreation policy. She is the co-editor and author of Spatial Microsimulation: A Handbook for Users.

She has a strong interest in medical education research as well as investigating the relationships around physical activity, diet and environmental exposures and their association with MSK injuries and chronic disease, such as osteoarthritis and obesity. She has extensive statistical modelling expertise.

Her background whilst highly numerate is not tradition. In brief: maths BSc(Hons); corporate banking career; MMedSci Human Nutrition; spatial epidemiology PhD; then increasingly senior academic roles (University of Leeds; University of Nottingham), teaching and leading research methods, medical statistics, physical activity epidemiology, expedition and wilderness medicine, and sport and exercise nutrition. This holistic background affords both medical understanding and statistical experience and gives her a wide and a diverse set of skills to draw on for research and teaching.

Expertise Summary

I have expert knowledge of research methods, including ethics, study design and medical statistics. I have significant experience of managing large datasets and undertaking advanced statistical analyses, including multi-level modelling, geographically weighted regression, geographic information systems, spatial analyses, k-medoid cluster analyses (unpublished work for MacMillan Cancer) and structural equation modelling; evidenced by my publication record. I have designed and built a spatial microsimulation model which is widely available for researchers/analysts to use. I have contributed to three books on health data spatial analyses and spatial microsimulation modelling. I understand the importance of discretion in handling confidential information, with strong knowledge of the data protection laws and the University data management requirements, and experience in handling patient identifiable data.

Teaching Summary

Kim Edwards is a senior educationalist and epidemiologist, Professor of Sport Exercise and Nutrition Education, in the School of Medicine. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is Interim Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of the University's overarching teaching and curriculum development strategy. Kim is also the Chair of the University Quality and Standards Committee, which oversees the application of all University regulations, policies and procedures in respect to academic quality and standards, providing leadership and direction to the committee in line with University strategic objectives.

She served as Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Director Postgraduate Taught Education and Student Experience from 2016-2022, and as the Academic Unit Lead for Postgraduate Taught Education from 2011-2024.

She remains closely involved with the two masters courses that she used to be Course Director for (MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine and MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Medicine), teaching on the courses and providing research supervision. She has long been a supporter of the Nottingham Recognition Scheme and has mentored hundreds of staff across multiple Schools to achieve recognition with Advance HE.

She has been an External Examiner at the Universities of Middlesex, Staffordshire, Teesside, UCLAN, UCL, Essex and Aegean Omiros College, Greece, as well as validating and standard setting for the Faculty for Sports Exercise Medicine. Collectively, this gives her a very broad knowledge of university processes, assessment and quality assurance of teaching and learning.

Kim has over twenty years of experience teaching Research Methods and Statistics. She has been the module convenor for the Research Methods module, Research Project and Dissertation Sports and Exercise Medicine module, and Sport and Exercise Nutrition module all at postgraduate level. She continues to contribute to these modules as well as Physical Activity Epidemiology and Expedition and Wilderness Medicine plus she has taught health care professionals outside of the masters programmes (e.g. FRCS(Orth) Examination revision courses). She also contributes to teaching and assessment for the PGCHE modules and the Nottingham Recognition Scheme for Advance HE recognition.

She takes innovative approach to teaching and learning, making extensive use of e-learning to augment in-person sessions and uses case studies and real-world examples to enhance engagement and bring teaching to life. In addition, she supervises many undergraduates, MSc and PhD research students and provides academic and pastoral support to UG and PG students.

Research Summary

My discipline specific research focuses on physical activity, diet and environmental exposures and their association with chronic disease, such as osteoarthritis, cancer and obesity, from a public… read more

Selected Publications

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