Rachel Maxwell has been working in higher education for most of her career. As Principal Advisor (Academic, Research and Consultancy) at STREAM by Kortext. Rachel works with multiple clients who are implementing the StREAM engagement analytics platform to support student retention. Rachel leads a company initiative to better understand the complexities of nurse education, particularly during placement activity. In addition, Rachel is also bringing together colleagues from across the Solutionpath client base in a community of practice for nursing, pioneering work to share best practice around student nurse support, using StREAM. Her work at Solutionpath builds heavily on her leadership of and responsibility for supporting student success at the University of Northampton within learning and teaching drawing on her solid understanding of the importance of a positive experience across the student lifecycle.
Rachel’s work with the nursing and medical professions specifically can be traced back to her work with Physicians for Human Rights (UK) in the mid-late 1990s, where she created and taught a module in Medicine and Human Rights that was shared online (many years before anyone knew about MOOCs or using the internet to share teaching materials). The module was taught in other medical schools around the world. She also created and taught a second module exploring the Legal Aspects of Medical Practice. Both modules were informed by the subject of her PhD: The Prevention of Physician Participation in Torture, a topic which is always the subject of healthy debate (and sometimes a little wariness) among her students.