Dr Aine McKillop, Country Consultant for Northern Ireland

Dr Aine McKillop BSc MSc PhD FIBMS ILTM completed her honours degree in biochemistry at Liverpool John Moores Liverpool University, and continued her studies at the University of Ulster, completing a Masters degree in Biomedical Science. She then moved to Queen's University Belfast and undertook a PhD in Clinical Medicine. Following her PhD, awarded in 1996, Aine worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Clinical Medicine at Queen's University/Royal Victoria Hospital and moved to the University of Ulster in 1998 where she continues to be an active member of the University of Ulster Diabetes Research Group investigating the mechanisms of pancreatic beta cell dysfunction and insulin resistance in diabetes mellitus. She has been successful in securing funding to support her research and is also involved in commercialization of patent-protected technologies. Aine became a Lecturer in 2002 at the University of Ulster and became a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry in 2006. She has extensive experience of teaching at under- and post-graduate levels, delivering lectures and practical classes to students with different learning needs, from different educational backgrounds, and at different levels of study. Through her own teaching and learning activities (on-campus and distance learning) and her involvement in School, Faculty and University Committees and Working Groups she has had numerous opportunities to disseminate, exchange and encourage best practice internally and externally. Aine has developed a strong interest in pedagogic research that has resulted in publications on e-learning and student induction initiatives and she has successfully obtained research funding to implement additional support material for students prior to studying on a distance learning programme. She has a key role in e-learning postgraduate provision in her School, where she has fostered the implementation of problem based e-learning and she is also currently involved in the development and implementation of an e-learning module in evidence based healthcare practice, a project which is funded by The Higher Education Academy.

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