Dr. Anita Laidlaw

SMERC Member

Telephone: 01334 463561

Email: ahl1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Anita Laidlaw has been a member of the Medical Education Research Executive component of SMERC since it formed in Sep 2011. She is a Reader in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition (SMMSN), University of Aberdeen where she is Director of the Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation and leads the SMMSN Higher Education Research group.

Anita is also the current Chair of Education Research Committee of ASME, and a Programme Board member of the National Centre for Remote and Rural Health and Care.

Research interests:

• Wellbeing at work (physical and psychological)
• Development of interventions
• Attitudes towards psychological wellbeing and psychological wellbeing difficulties
• Recruitment of workforce and students
• Retention of workforce and students
• Discrimination and embeddedness
• Remote and rural
• Healthcare communication
• Clinical communication training
• Inter-professional collaboration