The Christie Charity
Rikki is the Director of Christie Education, with an innovative portfolio of local, national and international education work focused on realising learner potential and improving healthcare outcomes. This is underpinned by a substantial career in health professions education (both nationally and internationally) and the development of sector-leading, award-winning curricula, programmes of study and assessment systems in previous senior education roles at the University of Leeds and University of Liverpool. Rikki practices clinically as a consultant stroke physician and geriatrician.
Her main research interests focus primarily on educational assessment, working with a cross-institutional group of research colleagues, which has led to over 200 key outputs (significant journal papers; invited and peer reviewed presentations to learned societies and institutions; educational consultancy). This portfolio of work centres on the ‘personalisation’ of assessment, to support individual learner journeys, drawing on impact-based research including the application of intelligent assessment design in campus and workplace-based assessment formats, assessor behaviours, mobile technology delivered assessment and the impact of sequential testing methodologies. Rikki publishes and speaks regularly at leading international medical education conferences, and is an active PhD supervisor, with current students focusing on assessment and curriculum research.
Rikki holds a number of UK and International educational advisory roles, including acting as an assessment expert for the General Medical Council (GMC), and leadership of the GMC's Tests of Competence Panel. She is the current chair of the global ASPIRE to Excellence Board which recognises and rewards excellence in health professions education and additionally is a trustee and member of the governing committee of the International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE).