Staff Profile
Professor Clare Guilding
Prof of Pharmacology & Medical Education
- Email: clare.guilding@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: School of Medicine
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Cookson Building
Newcastle University
NE2 4HH
Background
Clare is Director of Education, Lead for Medicine Admissions, and Deputy Head at the School of Medicine. Originally from York, she graduated with a degree and PhD in neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience/neuropharmacology at the University of Glasgow and University of Manchester. In 2011 Clare moved to the School of Medicine at Newcastle University, holding numerous roles, including MBBS Deputy Degree Programme Director, PARTNERS Widening Participation Summer School lead and co-lead for the Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing strand.
From January 2017- August 2020, Clare was seconded to the role of Dean of Academic Affairs at Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, with overall responsibility for quality assurance, assessment, student progress and student support for the MBBS programme. She managed the delivery of the first two years of this programme, ensuring that the outcomes and standards were the same as those delivered in Newcastle UK. Clare was intimately involved in the design and development of Newcastle's new MBBS curriculum and led and managed the implementation of this curriculum in Malaysia, led in the development and delivery of NUMed's staff development programme, and oversaw the Student Association.
Clare's education research interests lie in curriculum development and innovations in teaching. She played a key role in developing and more recently updating the British Pharmacological Society’s (BPS) UK undergraduate pharmacology curriculum, working with the inclusive pharmacology steering group to develop principles for inclusive implementation of the curriculum.
Externally she is Chair of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Education Section, Deputy Vice President (Academic Development) of the BPS, Co-Lead of Core Concepts of Pharmacology Education, and Deputy Director of the Pharmacology Education Project.
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education, Dundee University (2021)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Higher Education Academy (2014)
- Postgraduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in Academic Practice, Newcastle University (2014)
- ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management, The University of Manchester (2011)
- Ph.D, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh (2004)
- BSc (Hons) Neuroscience, 1st class & Class Prize, The University of Edinburgh (2000)
Impact and Awards
- National Teaching Fellow, Advance HE (2020)
- Australasian Visitor Award, British Pharmacological Society and Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (2017)
- Rang Prize, British Pharmacological Society (2017)
- Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teacher Award, Newcastle University (2016)
- Educator Innovator Award, Association for the Study of Medical Education - ASME (2016)
- Education Prize, British Pharmacological Society (2015)
- Overall Teaching Excellence Award, Newcastle University Student Union. "A special award to a member of staff who has shown outstanding commitment to all aspects of Learning and Teaching" (2015)
Clare teaches a range of pharmacology, physiology and neuroscience subjects to medical students.
Areas of research interest include:
- Curriculum development (medical and pharmacology)
- Transnational medical education
- Learning communities
- Widening participation and medical admissions
- Tucker SJ, Zecharia A, Guilding C, Page L, Engel K. Recognising and redressing inequity and bias through pharmacology education: a modern, practical and inclusive curriculum. British Pharmacological Society, 2022. Available at: https://www.bps.ac.uk/publishing/pharmacology-matters/august-2022/recognising-and-redressing-inequity-and-bias-throu.
- Guilding C, Pye RE, Butler S, Atkinson M, Field E. Answering questions in a co-created formative exam question bank improves summative exam performance, while students perceive benefits from answering, authoring, and peer discussion: A mixed methods analysis of PeerWise. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives 2021, 9(4), e00833.
- Wallace MJ, Zecharia A, Guilding C, Tucker S, McFadzean I. Developing a new undergraduate pharmacology core curriculum: The British Pharmacological Society Delphi Method. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives 2021, 9(4), e00832.
- Guilding C, Li Zhi PK, Mohana Krishnan S, Hubbard PS, McKeegan KS. Insights into Delivering Cross-Cultural Medical Education in the UK and Malaysia. Medical Science Educator 2021, 31, 2177-2188.
- Hughes ATL, Samuels RE, Baño-Otálora B, Belle MDC, Wegner S, Guilding C, Northeast RC, Loudon ASI, Gigg J, Piggins HD. Timed daily exercise remodels circadian rhythms in mice. Communications Biology 2021, 4, 761.
- Guilding C, Hardisty J, Randles E, Statham L, Green A, Bhudia R, Thandi CS, Teodorczuk A, Scott L, Matthan J. Designing and evaluating an interprofessional education conference approach to antimicrobial education. BMC Medical Education 2020, 20(1), 360.
- Valentine RA, Wakeling LA, Ferrie LJ, Schartner A, Guilding C, Peterson J. Students on Student Induction – A Cross-Disciplinary Action Research Project. ARELCS 2019, 16(2), 1-29.
- Guilding C, Hardisty J, Randles E, Statham L, Green A, Bhudia R, Thandi CS, Matthan J. Making it work: the feasibility and logistics of delivering large-scale interprofessional education to undergraduate healthcare students in a conference format. Journal of Interprofessional Care 2018, 32(5), 653-655.
- Guilding C. A flipped classroom approach to teaching drug calculations. pA2 Online: E Journal of the British Pharmacological Society 2017, 16(1), P86.
- Hardisty J, Guilding C, Statham L, J Matthan, Randles E, Green A, Bhudia R, Thandi C, Scott L. Are students accepting of an all-day interprofessional learning conference on antimicrobial stewardship and patient safety?. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2017, 25 (Suppl. 1), 61-62.
- Nufable S, Fletcher K, Weston S, Cronin M, Guilding C. Development of a Cross-campus Inter-professional Education Curriculum in Malaysia for Pharmacy and Medicine Degree Students. In: 1st Asia Pacific Interprofessional Education and Collaboration Conference (APIPEC). 2017, Solo, Surakarta, Indonesia: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret.
- Burford B, Medford W, Carter M, Tiffin P, Vance G, Corbett S, Shapiro E, Guilding C, Illing J. The Health Education Quality Framework and National Education and Training Survey: Evidence, Evaluation and Pilot. 2017.
- Burford B, Medford W, Carter M, Tiffin P, Vance G, Corbett S, Shapiro E, Guilding C, Illing J. The Health Education Quality Framework and National Education and Training Survey: Evidence, Evaluation and Pilot. Final report for Health Education England. Health Education England, 2017.
- Guilding C. Choose your own story: combining interactive voting technology and high-fidelity patient simulations in the lecture theatre, for large group preclinical medical education. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning 2016, 2(2), 47-49.
- Guilding C, Statham S, Randles E, Matthan J, Green A, Hardisty J, Teodorczuk A. Newcastle-Sunderland Interprofessional Education Conference 2016. Fareham: Centre For The Advancement Of Interprofessional Education, 2016. CAIPE e Bulletin Issue 53.
- Delgaty L, Matthan J, Woolner P, Guilding C, Thomas U. Preparing for the future or promoting social inequity? Investigating digital capabilities of prospective university students. In: 48th EUCEN Conference: Crossing borders through lifelong learning- enhancing quality and equity in higher education. 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
- Guilding C, Ball SG, Kennedy DJ, Thanacoody R. Development and Implementation of a Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing Strand for Newcastle University’s MBBS Degree Programme Using the British Pharmacological Society’s Core Curriculum for Medical Students. pA2 Online: E Journal of the British Pharmacological Society 2015, 13(3).
- Guilding C. Enhancing Early Clinical Pharmacology Education with Interactive High-Fidelity Virtual Patient Simulations in the Lecture Theatre. pA2 Online: E Journal of the British Pharmacological Society 2015, 13(3).
- Guilding C. Innovations in preclinical medical education: Bringing pharmacology to life!. BMJ STEL 2015, 1(Suppl. 2).
- Guilding C, Kennedy D, Price R. Development of a new end-of-year appraisal format for medical students. In: Association for Medical Education (AMEE) international conference. 2014, Milan, Italy: International Association for Medical Education.
- Guilding C, Scott FF, Bechtold DA, Brown TM, Wegner S, Piggins HD. Suppressed cellular oscillations in after-hours mutant mice are associated with enhanced circadian phase-resetting. Journal of Physiology 2013, 591(4), 1063-1080.
- Piggins HD, Guilding C, ed. Essays in Biochemistry: Chronobiology. 2011.
- Hughes AT, Guilding C, Piggins HD. Neuropeptide Signaling Differentially Affects Phase Maintenance and Rhythm Generation in SCN and Extra-SCN Circadian Oscillators. PLoS One 2011, 6(4), e18926.
- Piggins HD, Guilding C. The mammalian circadian system. In: Piggins, HD and Guilding, C, ed. Essays in Biochemistry. Chronobiology. 2011, pp.1-17.
- McNair K, Spike R, Guilding C, Prendergast GC, Stone TW, Cobb SR, Morris BJ. A role for RhoB in synaptic plasticity and the regulation of neuronal morphology. J Neurosci 2010, 30(9), 3508-17.
- Guilding C, Hughes AT, Piggins HD. Circadian Oscillators in the Epithalamus. Neuroscience 2010, 169(4), 1630–1639.
- Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Brown T, Namvar S, Piggins HD. A riot of rhythms: neuronal and glial circadian oscillators in the mediobasal hypothalamus. Molecular Brain 2009, 2(1), 28.
- Piggins HD, Hughes AT, Guilding C. Continuous and discontinuous measurement of brain oscillators. In: Journal of Physiological Sciences. 2009.
- Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Piggins HD. Effects of Food Deprivation on Mediobasal Hypothalamic Circadian Oscillators. In: Journal of Physiological Sciences. 2009.
- Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Brown T, Piggins HD. An ensemble of novel circadian oscillators in the mouse mediobasal hypothalamus. In: Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Experimental-Biology. 2008, Marseille, France.
- Piggins HD, Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Brown T. Circadian Oscillators in Extra-SCN brain slices. In: Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Experimental-Biology. 2008.
- Hughes AT, Guilding C, Lennox L, Samuels R, McMahon D, Piggins HD. Live imaging of altered period1 expression in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of Vipr2-/-mice. Journal of Neurochemistry 2008, 106(4), 1646-1657.
- Guilding C, Piggins HD. Challenging the omnipotence of the suprachiasmatic timekeeper: are circadian oscillators present throughout the mammalian brain?. European Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 25(11), 3195-3216.
- Guilding C, McNair K, Stone TW, Morris BJ. Restored plasticity in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis type 1 via inhibition of hyperactive ERK and CREB. European Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 25(1), 99-105.
- Guilding C, Dutia MB. Early and late changes in vestibular neuronal excitability after deafferentation. Neuroreport 2005, 16(13), 1415-1418.
- Guilding C, Seckl JR, Dutia MB. 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 activity in medial vestibular nucleus and cerebellum after unilateral vestibular deafferentation in the rat. Stress 2004, 7(2), 127-130.