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Helen Best

Dean of Academic Strategy

Summary

Helen Best is Dean of Academic Strategy at Sheffield Hallam University. Her responsibilities include leading strategic delivery programmes, organisational change and continuous improvement.

Helen Best

About

Helen Best is Dean of Academic Strategy at Sheffield Hallam University. Her responsibilities include leading strategic delivery programmes, organisational change and continuous improvement. She provides leadership across professional and academic boundaries and drives consistency, simplification, efficiency and sustainability within the University’s taught portfolio. She supports collaborative and multi-professional working helping to ensure coherence across the university.
 
She originally qualified as a diagnostic radiographer in 1987 and worked at various hospitals in London until 1993 when she moved to Sheffield Hallam University to take up a lecturing position. Helen held a number of senior academic posts in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing before moving to her current post which reports into the Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic. Helen is a registered radiographer with the Health and Care Professions Council and works for them as a partner visitor on institutional and course approvals across the UK. She is a member of the Society and College of Radiographers and works as an assessor for their Approvals and Accreditation Board. Helen is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Fellow of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. She has been a Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency, External Examiner at several Higher Education Institutions, and worked on the Subject TEF. She was an Appointed Governor for Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust from 2008-2011 and is a Trustee of Sheffield City Trust where she is Chair of the Charitable Purposes Committee.

Specialist area of interest

Diagnostic Radiography

Health care education

Higher education leadership

Publications

Invited speaker

Council of Deans for Health. Research Network. November 2013. Developing women’s careers in the health field - current challenges

Presentations, individual

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference, Glasgow 1993. Evaluation of a lead protection device for use in interventional radiology of the hepato-biliary system. Winner of RADMagazine's poster competition.

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. June 2005. Practice skills development in the University: reducing the burden on placement providers.

Sixth International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference. 9th -10th July 2002. Loughborough University. The implementation of computer based assessment in pre-registration radiography education: an evaluation.

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Imaging, Oncology, Science June 2002. Work in progress. The implementation of computer based assessment in pre-registration radiography education: an evaluation.

The Learning and Teaching Institute - e-learning Week, SHU. May 2002. Computer Based Assessment using Blackboard 5.5.

The Learning and Teaching Institute - Assessment in Focus Week, SHU. Jan 2002. Computer Based Assessment.

The Learning and Teaching Institute, SHU. April 2001. Learning from the workplace/clinical placement.

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Radiology 1998. Birmingham. June 1998. Clinical assessment, bridging the theory/practice gap, professional development: are professional development portfolios the answer?

East Midlands Conference Centre for Nottingham Education Consortia. December 1997. Workshop: Your Professional Development Portfolio.

The Yorkshire Branch of the Society of Radiographers Annual Conference, Scarborough, October 1997. Ethical dilemmas in Radiographic practice.

The Learning and Teaching Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, Summer Conference. July 1997. The Professional Development Portfolio.

The East Mercian Branch of the Society of Radiographers annual Conference, Lincoln, April 1997. Continuing Professional Development.

The Roentgen International Centenary Congress, Birmingham 1995. The role of compression bands in radiation dose reduction to the AP lumbar spine.

Presentations, joint papers

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Imaging, Oncology, Science June 2002. Work in Progress. Supporting student learning in the complexities of skull radiography: from electronic workbook to multimedia CD-ROM John Pirrie, Cathy Dawson, Helen Best

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Imaging, Oncology, Science June 2002. Work in Progress. Learning to Manage Health Information: incorporation in radiography and other allied health professions undergraduate curricula. Helen Best, Karen Booth, John Cleak, Andrew Garth

NHS Information Authority. New Ways of Working Conference. 5th March 2002. London. Learning to Manage Health Information: incorporation in radiography and other allied health professions undergraduate curricula. Helen Best, Karen Booth, John Cleak, Andrew Garth

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Imaging, Oncology, Science May 2000. Work in progress. Managing the challenges of diversity in inter-professional education.Helen Best, Karen Booth

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Imaging, Oncology, Science May 2000. Work in progress. An ongoing evaluation of Inter-professional Education: 5 years experience of shared learning. Karen Booth, Helen Best.

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Imaging, Oncology, Science May 2000. Work in progress. Promoting academic and personal development using a multi-disciplinary portfolio. Karen Booth, Helen Best.

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Imaging, Oncology, Science May 2000. Work in progress. Supporting supervising radiographers. Sue Ward and Helen Best.

The British Institute of Radiology/College of Radiographers annual conference. Radiology 1999. Birmingham. May 1999. A simple example of CPD for all. Neil Inns and Helen Best.

Written Publications

An evaluation following the introduction of computer based assessment into the learning, teaching and assessment strategy of the BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography course in the School of Health and Social Care. Learning Matters. Sheffield Hallam University. May 2002.

Learning to Manage Health Information: incorporation in radiography and other allied health professions undergraduate curricula. Helen Best, Karen Booth, John Cleak, Andrew Garth. Synergy. 2002.

Invited speaker

Assistant Radiographic Practitioners Conference. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust. June 2005. Assistant Radiographic Practitioners: career progression through higher education.

Council of Radiography Education Directors. December 2003. Preparing Clinical Partners for Academic Review

Association of Operating Department Practitioners. May 2003. Computer Based Assessment.

Council of Radiography Education Directors. December 2002. Quality Assurance Agency Academic Review.

Proprius Conference. Operating Department Practitioners. November 2001. The 4 tier structure.

Interprofessional Education Conference. University Hospitals of Leicester Trust. June 2001. Shared Learning: Managing the Diversity. Helen Best, Karen Booth, Robert Appleyard, Susan Walsh, Magdalene Gee, Helen Armitage.

European Congress of Radiology, ECR 2000. March 2000, Vienna. Realities of everyday practice - the ethical dimension. Christine Ferris and Helen Best

Poster presentations

TIIPLE. Learning together to work together. 2nd Annual Conference. March 2001. Joint author of 5 posters. Helen Best, Karen Booth, Robert Appleyard, Susan Walsh, Magdalene Gee, Helen Armitage

Other activities

Assessor to the Approvals and Accreditation Board for Society and College of Radiographers

Partner Visitor for Health Care Professionals Council

External Examiner at several Higher Education Institutions

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Fellow of the Leadership Foundation in Higher Education (FLF)

Trustee of Sheffield City Trust (Sheffield International Venues)

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