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‘This is going to hurt’: taking the pain out of group assessment (2025)
Digital Artefact
Sholl, S., & Yorkstone, S. (2025). ‘This is going to hurt’: taking the pain out of group assessment. [Online article]

Group assessment can be seen as unfair and unwieldy, but it also teaches essential skills such as teamwork and collaboration. We owe it to our students to frame it in a way that allows them to see its benefits.

You’re in your own time now: Understanding current experiences of transition to civilian life In Scotland. Interim Report (2021)
Report
Matthews-Smith, G., MacKay, D., Sholl, S., & Thomas, L. (2021). You’re in your own time now: Understanding current experiences of transition to civilian life In Scotland. Interim Report. Edinburgh: Forces in Mind Trust

This report is structured as follows:

❖ Chapter 2 briefly outlines the background and context for the research.
❖ Chapter 3 outlines the research framework in relation to the mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies and discusses the rese... Read More about You’re in your own time now: Understanding current experiences of transition to civilian life In Scotland. Interim Report.

Learning and coping through reflection: Exploring patient death experiences of medical students (2019)
Journal Article
Trivate, T., Dennis, A., Sholl, S., & Wilkinson, T. (2019). Learning and coping through reflection: Exploring patient death experiences of medical students. BMC Medical Education, 19, Article 451 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1871-9

Background: Existing studies have explored many aspects of medical students’ experiences of patient death and propose the importance of faculty support for coping. However, UK-based literature on this subject and research concerning learning through... Read More about Learning and coping through reflection: Exploring patient death experiences of medical students.

Understanding the healthcare workplace learning culture through safety and dignity narratives: a UK qualitative study of multiple stakeholders’ perspectives (2019)
Journal Article
Sholl, S., Scheffler, G., Monrouxe, L. V., & Rees, C. E. (2019). Understanding the healthcare workplace learning culture through safety and dignity narratives: a UK qualitative study of multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. BMJ Open, 9(5), Article e025615. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025615

Objectives: While studies at the undergraduate level have begun to explore healthcare students’ safety and dignity dilemmas, none have explored such dilemmas with multiple stakeholders at the postgraduate level. The current study therefore explores t... Read More about Understanding the healthcare workplace learning culture through safety and dignity narratives: a UK qualitative study of multiple stakeholders’ perspectives.

Balancing health care education and patient care in the UK workplace: a realist synthesis (2017)
Journal Article
Sholl, S., Ajjawi, R., Allbutt, H., Butler, J., Jindal-Snape, D., Morrison, J., & Rees, C. (2017). Balancing health care education and patient care in the UK workplace: a realist synthesis. Medical Education, 51(8), 787-801. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13290

Introduction: Patient care activity has recently increased without a proportionate rise in workforce numbers, impacting negatively on healthcare workplace learning. Healthcare professionals are prepared in part by spending time in clinical practice,... Read More about Balancing health care education and patient care in the UK workplace: a realist synthesis.

The Accidental Podcaster (2016)
Book Chapter
Robertson, S., & Sholl, S. (2016). The Accidental Podcaster. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in Learning and Teaching. Merchiston Publishing

The aim of this chapter is to explore student use of podcasts, employing longitudinal data from large cohorts to demonstrate to other teachers their potential as a relevant pedagogical tool. The study is novel insofar as it uses quantitative data fro... Read More about The Accidental Podcaster.

Changing lecture consumption for the 'Netflix generation': how lecture podcasts are used and valued by students (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, S., & Sholl, S. (2016, November). Changing lecture consumption for the 'Netflix generation': how lecture podcasts are used and valued by students. Presented at ICERI 2016

Background:
This paper describes a collaboration between two lecturers at Edinburgh Napier University to examine the potential of lecture captures as pedagogical tools. Although podcasts had not been extensively used in the authors' immediate teachi... Read More about Changing lecture consumption for the 'Netflix generation': how lecture podcasts are used and valued by students.

Balancing student/trainee learning with the delivery of patient care in the healthcare workplace: a protocol for realist synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
Sholl, S., Ajjawi, R., Allbutt, H., Butler, J., Jindal-Snape, D., Morrison, J., & Rees, C. (2016). Balancing student/trainee learning with the delivery of patient care in the healthcare workplace: a protocol for realist synthesis. BMJ Open, 6(4), Article e011145. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011145

Introduction:
A national survey was recently conducted to explore medical education research priorities in Scotland. The identified themes and underlying priority areas can be linked to current medical education drivers in the UK. The top priority a... Read More about Balancing student/trainee learning with the delivery of patient care in the healthcare workplace: a protocol for realist synthesis.

Seminar: Education and the Body Donor (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parkin, I., Sholl, S., & Findlater, G. (2014, March). Seminar: Education and the Body Donor. Presented at In Memoriam

Inter- and Intra-individual Variation in Applied Force When Listening at a Surface, and Resulting Variation in Earprints (2006)
Journal Article
Meijerman, L., Nagelkerke, N. J. D., Van Basten, R., Van Der Lugt, C., De Conti, F., Drusini, A. G., Giacon, M., Sholl, S., Vanezis, P., & Maat, G. J. R. (2006). Inter- and Intra-individual Variation in Applied Force When Listening at a Surface, and Resulting Variation in Earprints. Medicine, Science and the Law, 46(2), 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1258/rsmmsl.46.2.141

We aimed to explore the level of inter- and intra-individual variation in applied force when listening at a surface, and assess the resulting variation in earprints. We further intended to identify possible sources of this variation. Forty subjects e... Read More about Inter- and Intra-individual Variation in Applied Force When Listening at a Surface, and Resulting Variation in Earprints.

Exploratory study on classification and individualisation of earprints (2004)
Journal Article
Meijerman, L., Sholl, S., De Conti, F., Giacon, M., van der Lugt, C., Drusini, A., Vanezis, P., & Maat, G. (2004). Exploratory study on classification and individualisation of earprints. Forensic Science International, 140(1), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2003.10.024

The FearID research project is aimed at the individualisation of earprints for the purpose of forensic research. The study presented here was carried out within the framework of this project. It intends to combine a review of what is known from liter... Read More about Exploratory study on classification and individualisation of earprints.

Evaluation of dental radiographic identification: an experimental study (2000)
Journal Article
Sholl, S. A., & Moody, G. H. (2001). Evaluation of dental radiographic identification: an experimental study. Forensic Science International, 115(3), 165-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0379-0738%2800%2900305-4

The object of this study was to assess the value of dental radiographs for the purposes of personal identification in the absence of tooth restorations. 198 periapical and bitewing radio graphs were taken of teeth contained in 22 dry skulls obtained... Read More about Evaluation of dental radiographic identification: an experimental study.

Human identification factors in ear prints and photographs (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sholl, S., & Vanezis, P. (2000, July). Human identification factors in ear prints and photographs. Poster presented at International Association for Craniofacial Identification: 9th Biennial Meeting