Discussant: Professor Cees van der Vleuten, Maastricht University

Professor Cees van der Vleuten ( Maastricht University).
Professor Van der Vleuten is an expert in the evaluation and assessment of medical education. In 2010 he received the Dutch royal decoration for the societal impact of his work and 2012 the Karolina Prize for Research in Medical Education. He has written numerous articles and books on the subject area including Assessing professional competence: from methods to programmes Van der Vleuten and Lambert Schuwirth Medical Education 2005, 39 309-317 and A model for programmatic assessment fit for purpose, CPM Van der Vleuten, LWT Schuwirth, EW Driessen, J Dijstra, D Tigelaar, LK J Baartman and J Van Tartwijk Medical teacher 2012 ;34:205-214. 

In 2009 he was appointed as an adviser to the GMC UK on assessment in undergraduate medical education and was influential in creating the current Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board Guidelines.


Beryl Blaustone, (City University of New York)
Professor Blaustone is a Clinical Professor at City University New York and visiting Professor at Northumbria University. She is recognised as a leading authority and a published author in the areas of dispute resolution theory, professional role theory and professional skills theory.


Jose Garcia Anon (University of Valencia)
Professor Anon is Director of the International Human Rights Clinic in the Legal Clinic for Social Justice, Valencia University. His research interests include innovation in methods in teaching and learning in law. He contributed to the GAJE/ ICJLE conference in 2011 and the 5th Spanish Legal Conference on Legal Education in 2013.


Richard Grimes ( York University)
Richard is a former Director of Pro Bono Services at the College of Law and is currently Director of Clinical Programmes, York University. He has written widely on clinic and problem based learning. Most recently he has written with Caroline Strevens and Edward Phillips, Legal Education, Simulation in Theory and Practice part of the Ashgate Series on Emerging Legal Education.


Judith McNamara (Queensland University)
Professor McNamara is currently Head of Law at QUT. She has published extensively in legal education and her key areas of interest in the scholarship of teaching are final year experience, reflective practice and work integrated learning. She has a number of publications relating to assessment of work based learning including The challenge of assessing professional competence in work integrated learning, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, (2013), 38:2,183-197.


Cath Sylvester ( Northumbria University)
Cath is a former Director of the Student Law Office at Northumbria University and currently and responsibility for curriculum design for undergraduate programmes. Her research interests are in clinical legal education and experiential learning, curriculum design and assessment. She has regularly contributed to the IJCLE conferences and contributed to the 2014 ALT conference with a paper titled Measuring Competence in Legal Education: A view from the Bridge.