Interprofessional Education award win

A University academic’s commitment to collaborative teaching for health, education and social care students has scooped her a prestigious international award.

Interprofessional Education (IPE) at University of Northampton (UON) means students learn with, from and about their peers in other health and social care subject areas.

As they will work with these professionals during their future careers, the opportunity boosts their undergraduate learning with extra knowledge and insight.

At the epicentre is Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching Alison Power, the University’s IPE lead since 2018.

Alison is a Board Member of the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) which is a national charity, committed to supporting interprofessional education and collaborative practice, co-leads one of the 4 CAIPE Strategy 2022-2027 Priority Groups and is a member of the Interprofessional.Global Capacity Building Working Group, which has a global membership.

The work of Alison and CAIPE peers has been recognised with an international award from the Global Confederation for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice.

The Award was granted to the CAIPE Research Subgroup (Experience) – numbering 24 academics, service users, clinicians and students, led by Alison, from across the globe – for “dedication, expertise and unwavering commitment” to the advancement of IPE and relates to a series of eight papers published in the British Journal of Midwifery which Alison coordinated.

Alison (pictured in the left holding the Award) says: “The team and I are delighted and honoured to receive this prestigious global award on behalf of the CAIPE UK research writing group.

“The All Together Better Health XI conference itself was ‘off the scale’ in terms of networking opportunities and the sharing of IPE best practice from a global perspective, and I returned to the UK filled with inspiration and armed with many new ideas to continue developing interprofessional education at UON.”