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Ms Erica Sainsbury

Lecturer, Pharmacy Practice

Qualifications

BPharm, MSc, GradDipEdStud (Higher Ed), PhD, MPS, MACE, FHERDSA

Contact Details

University of Sydney
Phone: +61 2 9351 2332
Fax: +61 2 9351 4391
Email:
Room N404
Pharmacy Building A15
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Background

Erica has received numerous awards for her teaching throughout her career: the University of Sydney Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998; The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2001; and the Quality Teacher’s Award from the NSW Minister for Education and Training in 2002. In 2005 she received the Faculty of Pharmacy award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2008, she received the Faculty award for Support of the Student Experience.

Erica was awarded her PhD in 2009. As an ECR, she has already published 9 peer-viewed journal articles. Together with her colleagues, she has received research funding totalling just under $250,000.

Research Interests

Erica’s research interests involve using sociocultural theory as a framework for explaining the ways in which individuals change as they learn, particularly in the context of university education. Her PhD explored the processes and outcomes of learning of first year Pharmacy students, and she has developed a model of learning centred on active participation and development of discourse skills.

Her research has implications for the design and implementation of student-centred curricula, an area in which she is also very interested.

As a practising pharmacist, Erica is also interested in understanding how an appreciation of the ways in which adults learn can be harnessed to promote enhanced patient care by pharmacists in collaboration with other health care professionals.

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Select Journal Articles

  1. Ryan, G, Hanrahan, J, Krass, I, Sainsbury, E. & Smith, L. (2009). Contemporary curriculum development: A case study. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 73 (1).
  2. Sainsbury, E.J. & Walker, R.A. (2007). Assessment as a vehicle for learning: Extending collaboration into assessment. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 33, 103-117. (Published electronically 19th July 2007: DOI: 10.1080/02602930601127844)
  3. Smith, L.D., Saini, B., Krass, I., Chen, T.F., Bosnic-Anticevich, S.Z. and Sainsbury, E.J. (2007). Pharmacy students’ approaches to learning in an Australian University. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 71 (6).
  4. Sainsbury, E.J. and Walker, R.A. (2007). Same words, different meanings: Learning to talk the scientific language of pharmacy (pp. 13-25). In A. Brew and J. Sachs (Eds.), Transforming a university: The scholarship of teaching and learning in practice. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  5. Pressick-Kilborn, K.J., Sainsbury, E.J. and Walker, R.A. (2005) Making sense of theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches: Exploring conceptual change and interest in learning from a sociocultural perspective. Australian Educational Researcher, 32, 25-47
  6. Walker, R.A., Pressick-Kilborn, K., Arnold, L.S. and Sainsbury, E.J. (2004) Investigating motivation in context: Developing sociocultural perspectives. European Journal of Psychology, 9: 245-256 (invited paper in special issue)
  7. Kritikos, V., Watt, H.M.G., Krass, I., Sainsbury, E.J. and Bosnic-Anticevich, S.Z. (2003) Pharmacy students’ perceptions of their profession relative to other health care professions. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 11 (2), 97-105
  8. Sainsbury, E.J. and Ashley, J.J. (1986) Curve-fitting in pharmacokinetics: A comparison between gamma and biexponential fits. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 30: 243-244
  9. Sainsbury, E.J., Fitzpatrick, D., Ikram, H., Nicholls, M.G., Espiner, E.A. and Ashley, J.J. (1985) Pharmacokinetics and plasma-concentration-effect relationships of prenalterol in cardiac failure. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 28: 397-403
  10. Currie, P.J., Kelly, M.J., Middlebrook, K., Federman, J., Sainsbury, E.J., Ashley, J.J. and Pitt, A. (1984) Acute intravenous and sustained oral therapy with the beta-1 agonist, prenalterol, in patients with chronic severe cardiac failure. British Heart Journal, 51: 530-538
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