Staff Profile

Background

Clare is Deputy Head and Head of Recruitment and Admissions (MBBS) at the School of Medicine. Originally from York, she graduated with a degree and PhD in neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh. Her early career involved postdoctoral research in neuroscience and neuropharmacology at the University of Glasgow and the University of Manchester. In 2011, Clare transitioned into medical education at Newcastle University’s School of Medicine where she has held various roles, including Director of Education, MBBS Deputy Degree Programme Director, PARTNERS Widening Participation Summer School lead and co-lead for the Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing strand.

From 2017- 2020, Clare was seconded to Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) as the Dean of Academic Affairs. In this role she was responsible for quality assurance, assessment, student progress and student support for the MBBS programme. She managed the delivery of the first two years of this programme, ensuring that the outcomes and standards were the same as those delivered in Newcastle UK. Clare was intimately involved in the design and development of Newcastle's new MBBS curriculum and led and managed the implementation of this curriculum in Malaysia, led in the development and delivery of NUMed's staff development programme, and oversaw the Student Association.

Clare's education research interests lie in curriculum development, inclusive education, and innovations in teaching. She played a key role in developing and more recently updating the British Pharmacological Society’s (BPS) UK undergraduate pharmacology curriculum, working with the inclusive pharmacology steering group to develop principles for inclusive implementation of the curriculum. Clare is a key leader in the Core Concepts of Pharmacology project, which seeks to transform pharmacology education globally by establishing and promoting fundamental pharmacological principles for curricula. ​

Current external roles 

• Chair of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Education Section. IUPHAR oversees over 60 member societies and >100,000 pharmacologists worldwide.
• Vice President (Academic Development) of the British Pharmacological Society. Chair of the Education and Training committee.
• Co-Lead of the International Core Concepts of Pharmacology Project . The project has brought together over 300 educators and 1200 students from 26 countries.
• Deputy Director of the Pharmacology Education Project. 
• External examiner, Year 1 MBChB, Keele University, UK

Qualifications

• Masters in Medical Education, Newcastle University (2024)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Higher Education Academy (2014)
• Postgraduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in Academic Practice, Newcastle University (2014)
• ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management, The University of Manchester (2011)
• Ph.D, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh (2004)
• BSc (Hons) Neuroscience, 1st class & Class Prize, The University of Edinburgh (2000)

Impact and Awards

• Inaugural Elizabeth Davis Education Fellow, Monash University, Australia (2022)
• Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society: FBPhS (2022)
• National Teaching Fellow, Advance HE (2020)
• Australasian Visitor Award, British Pharmacological Society and Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (2017) 
• Rang Prize, British Pharmacological Society (2017) 
• Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teacher Award, Newcastle University (2016)
• Educator Innovator Award, Association for the Study of Medical Education - ASME (2016)
• Education Prize, British Pharmacological Society (2015)
• Overall Teaching Excellence Award, Newcastle University Student Union. "A special award to a member of staff who has shown outstanding commitment to all aspects of Learning and Teaching" (2015)

Clare teaches a range of pharmacology, physiology and neuroscience subjects to medical students.

Areas of research interest include:

1. Curriculum development (medical and pharmacology)
2. Transnational medical education
3. Learning communities
4. Widening participation and medical admissions

• Articles

  • Guilding C, White PJ. Threshold concepts and core concepts in pharmacology education: A commentary. Pharmacology Research and Perspectives 2024, 12(6), e70035.
  • Guilding C, Kelly-Laubscher R, Netere A, Babey A-M, Restini C, Cunningham M, Kelly JP, Koenig J, Karpa K, Hawes M, Tucker SJ, Angelo TA, White PJ. Developing an international concept-based curriculum for pharmacology education: The promise of core concepts and concept inventories. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2024, epub ahead of print.
  • Guilding C, White PJ, Cunningham M, Kelly-Laubscher R, Koenig J, Babey A-M, Tucker S, Kelly JP, Gorman L, Aronsson P, Hawes M, Ngo SNT, Misfud J, Werners AH, Hinton T, Khan F, Aljofan M, Angelo T. Defining and unpacking the core concepts of pharmacology: A global initiative. British Journal of Pharmacology 2024, 181(3), 375-392.
  • White PJ, Guilding C, Angelo T, Kelly JP, Gorman L, Tucker SJ, Fun A, Han J, Chen G, Samak Y, Babey A-M, Caetano FA, Sarangi SC, Koenig J, Hao H, Goldfarb J, Karpa K, Vieira L, Restini C, Cunningham M, Aronsson P, Kelly-Laubscher R, Hernandez M, Rangachari PK, Mifsud J, Mraiche F, Sabra R, Pineros O, Zhen X, Kwanashie H, Exintaris B, Karunaratne N, Ishii K, Liu Y. Identifying the core concepts of pharmacology education: A global initiative. British Journal of Pharmacology 2023, 180(9), 1197-1209.
  • Rothwell C, Guilding C, Veasuvalingam B, McKeegan K, Illing J. Identification of multicultural learning experiences following an international cross campus medical student exchange programme between the UK and Malaysia: a qualitative study. BMJ Open 2023, 13(10), e072808.
  • Gorman L, Hernandez M, Karpa K, Restini C, Caetano Crowley F, Goldfarb J, Guilding C, White PJ. Contributions of 15 ASPET DPE Members to the International Collaborative Core Concepts Project in Pharmacology Education: Reflections and Opportunities for ASPET. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2023, 385(S3 392).
  • Hughes ATL, Samuels RE, Baño-Otálora B, Belle MDC, Wegner S, Guilding C, Northeast RC, Loudon ASI, Gigg J, Piggins HD. Timed daily exercise remodels circadian rhythms in mice. Communications Biology 2021, 4, 761.
  • Guilding C, Li Zhi PK, Mohana Krishnan S, Hubbard PS, McKeegan KS. Insights into Delivering Cross-Cultural Medical Education in the UK and Malaysia. Medical Science Educator 2021, 31, 2177-2188.
  • Wallace MJ, Zecharia A, Guilding C, Tucker S, McFadzean I. Developing a new undergraduate pharmacology core curriculum: The British Pharmacological Society Delphi Method. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives 2021, 9(4), e00832.
  • Guilding C, Pye RE, Butler S, Atkinson M, Field E. Answering questions in a co-created formative exam question bank improves summative exam performance, while students perceive benefits from answering, authoring, and peer discussion: A mixed methods analysis of PeerWise. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives 2021, 9(4), e00833.
  • Guilding C, Hardisty J, Randles E, Statham L, Green A, Bhudia R, Thandi CS, Teodorczuk A, Scott L, Matthan J. Designing and evaluating an interprofessional education conference approach to antimicrobial education. BMC Medical Education 2020, 20(1), 360.
  • Valentine RA, Wakeling LA, Ferrie LJ, Schartner A, Guilding C, Peterson J. Students on Student Induction – A Cross-Disciplinary Action Research Project. ARELCS 2019, 16(2), 1-29.
  • Guilding C, Hardisty J, Randles E, Statham L, Green A, Bhudia R, Thandi CS, Matthan J. Making it work: the feasibility and logistics of delivering large-scale interprofessional education to undergraduate healthcare students in a conference format. Journal of Interprofessional Care 2018, 32(5), 653-655.
  • Hardisty J, Guilding C, Statham L, J Matthan, Randles E, Green A, Bhudia R, Thandi C, Scott L. Are students accepting of an all-day interprofessional learning conference on antimicrobial stewardship and patient safety?. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2017, 25 (Suppl. 1), 61-62.
  • Guilding C. A flipped classroom approach to teaching drug calculations. pA2 Online: E Journal of the British Pharmacological Society 2017, 16(1), P86.
  • Guilding C. Choose your own story: combining interactive voting technology and high-fidelity patient simulations in the lecture theatre, for large group preclinical medical education. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning 2016, 2(2), 47-49.
  • Guilding C. Innovations in preclinical medical education: Bringing pharmacology to life!. BMJ STEL 2015, 1(Suppl. 2).
  • Guilding C. Enhancing Early Clinical Pharmacology Education with Interactive High-Fidelity Virtual Patient Simulations in the Lecture Theatre. pA2 Online: E Journal of the British Pharmacological Society 2015, 13(3).
  • Guilding C, Ball SG, Kennedy DJ, Thanacoody R. Development and Implementation of a Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescribing Strand for Newcastle University’s MBBS Degree Programme Using the British Pharmacological Society’s Core Curriculum for Medical Students. pA2 Online: E Journal of the British Pharmacological Society 2015, 13(3).
  • Guilding C, Scott FF, Bechtold DA, Brown TM, Wegner S, Piggins HD. Suppressed cellular oscillations in after-hours mutant mice are associated with enhanced circadian phase-resetting. Journal of Physiology 2013, 591(4), 1063-1080.
  • Hughes AT, Guilding C, Piggins HD. Neuropeptide Signaling Differentially Affects Phase Maintenance and Rhythm Generation in SCN and Extra-SCN Circadian Oscillators. PLoS One 2011, 6(4), e18926.
  • Guilding C, Hughes AT, Piggins HD. Circadian Oscillators in the Epithalamus. Neuroscience 2010, 169(4), 1630–1639.
  • McNair K, Spike R, Guilding C, Prendergast GC, Stone TW, Cobb SR, Morris BJ. A role for RhoB in synaptic plasticity and the regulation of neuronal morphology. J Neurosci 2010, 30(9), 3508-17.
  • Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Brown T, Namvar S, Piggins HD. A riot of rhythms: neuronal and glial circadian oscillators in the mediobasal hypothalamus. Molecular Brain 2009, 2(1), 28.
  • Hughes AT, Guilding C, Lennox L, Samuels R, McMahon D, Piggins HD. Live imaging of altered period1 expression in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of Vipr2^-/-mice. Journal of Neurochemistry 2008, 106(4), 1646-1657.
  • Guilding C, McNair K, Stone TW, Morris BJ. Restored plasticity in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis type 1 via inhibition of hyperactive ERK and CREB. European Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 25(1), 99-105.
  • Guilding C, Piggins HD. Challenging the omnipotence of the suprachiasmatic timekeeper: are circadian oscillators present throughout the mammalian brain?. European Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 25(11), 3195-3216.
  • Guilding C, Dutia MB. Early and late changes in vestibular neuronal excitability after deafferentation. Neuroreport 2005, 16(13), 1415-1418.
  • Guilding C, Seckl JR, Dutia MB. 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 activity in medial vestibular nucleus and cerebellum after unilateral vestibular deafferentation in the rat. Stress 2004, 7(2), 127-130.

• Book Chapter

  • Piggins HD, Guilding C. The mammalian circadian system. In: Piggins, HD and Guilding, C, ed. Essays in Biochemistry. Chronobiology. 2011, pp.1-17.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Nufable S, Fletcher K, Weston S, Cronin M, Guilding C. Development of a Cross-campus Inter-professional Education Curriculum in Malaysia for Pharmacy and Medicine Degree Students. In: 1st Asia Pacific Interprofessional Education and Collaboration Conference (APIPEC). 2017, Solo, Surakarta, Indonesia: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret.
  • Delgaty L, Matthan J, Woolner P, Guilding C, Thomas U. Preparing for the future or promoting social inequity? Investigating digital capabilities of prospective university students. In: 48th EUCEN Conference: Crossing borders through lifelong learning- enhancing quality and equity in higher education. 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Guilding C, Kennedy D, Price R. Development of a new end-of-year appraisal format for medical students. In: Association for Medical Education (AMEE) international conference. 2014, Milan, Italy: International Association for Medical Education.
  • Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Piggins HD. Effects of Food Deprivation on Mediobasal Hypothalamic Circadian Oscillators. In: Journal of Physiological Sciences. 2009.
  • Piggins HD, Hughes AT, Guilding C. Continuous and discontinuous measurement of brain oscillators. In: Journal of Physiological Sciences. 2009.
  • Piggins HD, Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Brown T. Circadian Oscillators in Extra-SCN brain slices. In: Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Experimental-Biology. 2008.
  • Guilding C, Hughes ATL, Brown T, Piggins HD. An ensemble of novel circadian oscillators in the mouse mediobasal hypothalamus. In: Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Experimental-Biology. 2008, Marseille, France.

• Confidential Report

  • Burford B, Medford W, Carter M, Tiffin P, Vance G, Corbett S, Shapiro E, Guilding C, Illing J. The Health Education Quality Framework and National Education and Training Survey: Evidence, Evaluation and Pilot. 2017.

• Edited Book

  • Piggins HD, Guilding C, ed. Essays in Biochemistry: Chronobiology. 2011.

• Editorial

  • Guilding C, Kelly-Laubscher R, White PJ. The future of pharmacology education: a global outlook. Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology 2024, Epub ahead of print.

• Online Publications

  • Guilding C, Cunningham M, Engel K. Putting Pharmacology Education on the Map. British Pharmacological Society (bps.ac.uk), 2023. Available at: https://www.bps.ac.uk/publishing/pharmacology-matters/september-2023/putting-pharmacology-education-on-the-map.
  • Tucker SJ, Zecharia A, Guilding C, Page L, Engel K. Recognising and redressing inequity and bias through pharmacology education: a modern, practical and inclusive curriculum. British Pharmacological Society, 2022. Available at: https://www.bps.ac.uk/publishing/pharmacology-matters/august-2022/recognising-and-redressing-inequity-and-bias-throu.

• Reports

  • Burford B, Medford W, Carter M, Tiffin P, Vance G, Corbett S, Shapiro E, Guilding C, Illing J. The Health Education Quality Framework and National Education and Training Survey: Evidence, Evaluation and Pilot. Final report for Health Education England. Health Education England, 2017.
  • Guilding C, Statham S, Randles E, Matthan J, Green A, Hardisty J, Teodorczuk A. Newcastle-Sunderland Interprofessional Education Conference 2016. Fareham: Centre For The Advancement Of Interprofessional Education, 2016. CAIPE e Bulletin Issue 53.