Health Sciences

The School of Health Sciences does not currently use any specific AR/VR technologies within their teaching and learning practices. However, the School is interested at exploring further the possibility of Immersive Media for Simulation-based Learning and is currently looking into CEM Hololense – Lucina AR, a wireless childbirth simulator (providing an inward view of birthing) to integrate within Midwifery teaching.

Meanwhile, Adult Patient Simulators and various Child High Fidelity Manikins with their associated technology/simulation setups, are used within teaching in all years of Nursing, Midwifery, and second-year of Physiotherapy with more opportunities currently being discussed. To learn more about the SHS’s Simulation Labs at Falmer and Eastbourne, please contact the School’s Clinical Skills Technicians and Lab Supervisors Kayleigh Morley, k.morley2@brighton.ac.uk and Suze Thompson, s.thompson2@brighton.ac.uk

Some immersive sessions have also been run with both MSc and BSc Occupational Therapy students in collaboration with the school’s Learning Technologies Advisers. These sessions were part of a ‘digital skills’ module of which purpose was to introduce students to a variety of digital activities that they could use in practice with patients. The sessions involved students working in small groups to design and record an immersive experience using a Ricoh Theta 360 camera. The footage was then uploaded to YouTube and students made their own google cardboard VR headset to experience the video they had created. To learn more about these sessions, please get in touch with the School’s LTA, Craig Wakefield.