Mr Tim Bilham
Professional activities
- External Examiner, Primary Care Postgraduate Programme, University of Winchester
- Council of Governors, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (RNHRD), Bath
- Primary Contact, Higher Education Academy, Medicine and Dentistry
- External Paper Reviewer, Association of Learning Technologies
- NHS Education Expert Reference Group, Universities SW
Flexible Learning Project
A Faculty-wide strategic initiative to widen access to our postgraduate programmes. Areas currently under exploration:
- International Development
- Wellbeing and Human Development
- Public Policy
- Primary Healthcare
- International security
- Educational leadership, management and administration
- Quantitative methods
Profile
Tim is a practitioner in flexible, distance and online learning and in the design and development of novel programmes for professional development.
He is currently Director of Studies for the MSc Primary Care, MSc Rheumatology, MSc Healthcare Informatics and MSc Healthcare Information Governance and Director of the HSS Faculty Flexible Learning Project.
Tim was made a National Teaching Fellow in 2007, an FHEA in 2008 and is an Honorary Associate Postgraduate Dean in the School of Primary Care in the Severn Postgraduate Deanery.
Tim initiated the first distance learning courses at Bath in engineering (Construction Management, Integrated Environmental Management and Electrical Power Systems) and medicine, Sport and Exercise Medicine and Primary Care Rheumatology, the first fully online course, Healthcare Informatics, and the first University programme to use Moodle as its VLE, Sport and Exercise Medicine., for which he won the University Innovations in Learning and Teaching Award (2005). He was instrumental in the establishment of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University in the Department of Psychology and contributed to the design of the Professional Doctorate in Health and MSc Sports Physiotherapy.
He has directed two major international development projects: firstly building capacity and capability in open and distance education for the Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) and secondly the establishment of a new College of Open and Distance Learning in Botswana (BOCODOL) which plans to become an Open University in 2016.
During his time at Bath Tim has been responsible for winning research and development grants of over £5.7million for educational innovation and development.
He has an MA from the University of Cambridge.
Research interests
- Participative learning, online communities of practice
- Learning design for effective professional development
- Education for sustainable healthcare, climate change impacts on health
Teaching
Postgraduate
- HL50123: Learning and teaching in healthcare
- HL50168: Evidence-based practice in primary care
- HL50174: Primary care practice enquiry
- HL50181: Introduction to learning and teaching in primary care
- HL50077: Research project design
- HL50121: Consumer health informatics
- Integrated Professional Development 4
- The Bath Course A: Teaching for Learning
- The Bath Course B: Managing an academic career
Publications
Book Sections
Bilham, T., 2006. Creating and sustaining online communities of practice. In: Carey, L., Huntley-Moore, S., Jordan, A., Magennis, S. and McMullin, B., eds. Creating and Sustaining an Effective Learning Environment. Dublin: All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE). (Tim Bilham)
Bilham, T., 2005. Online learning: can communities of practice deliver personalization in learning? In: de Freitas, S. and Yapp, C., eds. Personalizing Learning in the 21st Century. Stafford: Network Educational Press, pp. 73-78.
Articles
Bilham, T., 2009. e-Learning in medical education: Guide supplement 32.5 – Viewpoint1. Medical Teacher, 31 (5), pp. 449-451.
Bilham, T. and , J. G. M., 2005. Supporting Carers: Learning Communities to support practice. Learning Disability Psychiatry, 7 (1), pp. 6-7.
Reports/Papers
Bilham, T. and Gilmour, R., 1995. Distance Education in Engineering for Developing Countries. Vol. 13. Other. London: Overseas Development Administration (ODA). (Education Research Paper)
Conference or Workshop Items
Bilham, T., Barratt Hacking, E. and Main, P., 2010. Postgraduate programme in primary care: a participative approach to curriculum planning and design. In: Fourth RCGP Annual Primary Care Conference, 2010-10-07 - 2010-10-09, Harrogate International Centre.
Bilham, T., 2007. Learning Design: how can we sustain communities of practice online? In: Festival of Learning, Health Professions’ Education in the 21st Century, 2007-03-27 - 2007-03-29, Royal College of Physicians, London.
Jones, G., Reid, A. and Bilham, T., 2005. Curious incidents: designing and implementing a virtual learning environment about Asperger’s Syndrome. In: Computer Assisted Learning - Cal '05: Virtual Learning?, 2005-04-04 - 2005-04-06, Bristol.
