Teaching case study
Building the Implementation Science Masterclass CPD Course from the ground up.
An audiovisual CPD course I co-created and co-organised with Dr Laura Kudrna — a series of recorded expert masterclasses, designed from the outset to be edited, packaged and scaled into an open online course.
The Implementation Science Masterclass CPD Course was developed and co-organised with Dr Laura Kudrna, both of us in the Department of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Birmingham, and made possible through two NIHR-funded bodies — the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands and the NIHR Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration.
It grew out of a genuine gap: implementation science is a fast-moving field, but accessible, high-quality teaching that brings researchers, clinicians and policymakers together is scarce. We conceived it as a live seminar series, open to in-person and online participants, with every session recorded. The course is built around audiovisual content — the recorded masterclasses themselves — supplemented by slide decks and a core reference text, so the learning experience is led by watching leading experts in their own words rather than reading alone.
The packaged course launches in September 2026 and will be hosted, open to all, on Canvas at canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/85348.
What it took to build
Skills in practice
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Collaboration and co-design. Conceived, designed and delivered jointly with Dr Laura Kudrna, sharing curriculum design, speaker liaison and production across a year-long series.
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Networking and convening expertise. Built the series around leading experts, each invited to speak on their own research — drawing on relationships across health services management, evidence-based surgery, AI in the NHS, health economics and organisational science to assemble a programme with genuine authority.
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Working backwards from the end goal. Engineered the whole series around a future online course from day one — sessions were structured, recorded and consent-managed specifically so the talks and the live Q&A could become durable online content.
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Audiovisual production and video editing. Recorded, edited and assembled the masterclass videos into polished, self-paced content — the audiovisual core of the course — preserving the live Q&A debates (post-COVID innovation thresholds, patient trust in AI, the politics of de-implementation) as part of the material.
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Building and running the digital platform. Designed and assembled the course in Canvas, structuring recordings, slide decks and supporting materials into a coherent self-paced learning experience.
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Interdisciplinary curation. Deliberately spanned social science, health economics, clinical-trials methodology, AI regulation, behavioural psychology and organisational theory — reflecting a conviction that implementation science is inherently interdisciplinary.
Programme
Masterclass contributors
| Contributor | Topic |
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| Prof Amy Grove | Introduction to Implementation Science |
| Prof Richard Lilford | Causal approaches |
| Dr Arabella Scantlebury | Evidence versus experience: the clash of the surgeons |
| Dr Jeffry Hogg | AI implementation in NHS ophthalmology services |
| Prof Roman Xu | Hybrid Type 2 trials and AI for diabetes management |
| Prof Graeme Currie | Organisational factors |
| Prof Iestyn Williams | De-implementation |
| Prof Robin Miller | Understanding process |
Resources
Supporting resources
The series was supplemented by slide decks and a core reference text — Implementation Science: The Key Concepts (Rapport, Clay-Williams & Braithwaite, 2022, Routledge). It also benefited from input from experts at the Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science (CEIS) at the University of Birmingham.
View the course on Canvas → (open to all from September 2026)