Rate My Professor Alison Ledger

Ledger is renowned internationally for mentoring new researchers in clinical and health professions education research. She previously chaired the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) Education Research Committee and edited the book Starting Research in Clinical Education (2023). Her research promotes scholarly teaching, evidence-informed decision-making, and diversity and inclusion in clinical academic career pathways. Notable publications include “Power distance within online and face-to-face medical education in Sri Lanka and the UK” (Medical Education, 2025, with A. Ellawala and H. Wickramasekara), “Igniting the fire and seeing through the smoke: enabling medical students to see themselves as future clinical academics” (Medical Teacher, 2025, with B. Bracewell and A.-M. Reid), “Expansive learning in medical education: Putting change laboratory to work” (Medical Teacher, 2020, with C. Morris et al.), and earlier music therapy work such as “The effects of group music therapy on agitation levels of people with Alzheimer’s disease” (2005). A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), she supervises doctorates in health professions education.