Associate Professor Alexandra Webb
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About
With a background as an anatomist, Dr Webb is committed to enhancing medical education through the creation of effective dynamic teaching and learning environments that exploit the affordances of technologies.
Dr Webb has more than 20 years experience teaching anatomy into undergraduate & postgraduate medicine, allied health & science programs in Australia & the United Kingdom. She has extensive proficiencies in leading the development & implementation of new curricula & resources. She is an innovative educator & educational researcher who takes measured risks in trialling the effectiveness of novel teaching & learning approaches such as serious games, touchscreen technology, adaptive learning, virtual patients & eBooks. In her current role, she is leading the development & implementation of technology enhanced learning & teaching for the School’s MChD as well as creating a flexible collaborative Professional Development program to build capacity in teaching & learning. Dr Webb’s educational practice has been recognised with multiple awards, including Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy & a national Australian Award for University Teaching.
Dr Webb has been an elected Council member of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists (ANZACA) since 2013. She currently serves on the Executive Council as Secretary and co-editor of the Newsletter. In 2016, she organised the ANZACA conference ‘Artful Anatomy’ at the ANU Medical School.
Affiliations
- Webb Group, Leader
- Valter Group, Collaborator
- Smyth Group, Collaborator
- Aroni Group, Collaborator
Research interests
Dr Webb leads a multidisciplinary program of clinical anatomy & anatomical education research.
- Anatomy and Medical Imaging
- Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching
- Medical/Anatomy Education
- Musculoskeletal Pain and Disability
Projects
- Technology, Art and Innovation: toward new paradigms in health professional education, Principal investigator
- Developing Transdisciplinary Health Humanities Education at ANU, Co-investigator
- Lessons for distance education and e-learning, forged in the crucible of a pandemic, Co-investigator
- Social Identity, Self-Concept and Belonging in Education, Co-investigator
- Identifying Morphological Changes in the Cervical Spine Muscles in Whiplash, Supervisor
- Whiplash, Supervisor
Teaching information
Researcher's projects
In her research, Dr Webb utilises a range of anatomical techniques & imaging procedures to advance knowledge of human structure & function to improve the diagnosis & management of musculoskeletal pain and disability. She also informs her educational practice by undertaking research in anatomy education and technology enhanced learning and teaching.
- Anatomical and advanced imaging techniques to quantify human morphology to improve the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal pain and disability.
- Anatomy education
- Technology enhanced learning and teaching
Available student projects
Dr Webb supervises medical, science, Honours & higher degree research students.
- Magnetic resonance imaging studies of the cervical spine
- Identifying Morphological Changes in the Cervical Spine Muscles in Whiplash
Location
Florey Building 54 Mills Road, Australian National University, Acton ACT 2601