Role
Selection and Admissions Psychometrician
Qualifications & background
PhD, BA, PGDip Social Research Methods, Before joining the Peninsula School of Medicine Paul worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, on the the Learning Lives project, a three year ESRC and TLRP funded project.
Research interests
Assessing the reliability and predictive validity of medical school selection instruments.
Longitudinal data analysis methods (see Teaching and Learning Research Programme http://www.tlrp.org/capacity/rm/wt/lambe/ ), Latent Class Analysis and Survival Analysis.
Publications
Lambe P, Waters C, Bristow D.(2012) The UK Clinical Aptitude Test : is it a fair test for selecting medical students? (2012) Medical Teacher (forthcoming)
Lambe P, Bristow D. (2011) Predicting medical student performance from attributes at entry: a latent class analysis. Medical Education 2011;45:308-316.
Lambe P, Bristow D, (2010) 'What are the most important attributes of good doctors? A Delphi survey of clinicians'. Medical Teacher 2010, 32, e347 e354.
Macleod,F., and Lambe,P., (2009) 'Role configurations and pathways: A latent structure approach to studying the likelihood of British women participating in adult education from early to mid-adulthood', in Biesta,G., et al (eds) Learning Across the Life Course: Identity, Agency and Change, in Special Edition of Oxford Review of Education , Oxford.
Macleod, F., and Lambe, P., (July 2008) 'Understanding the place of part time education and training in the lives of adults in Britain :1991-2005', Learning Lives Summative Paper, Teaching and Learning Research Briefing, July 2008, Number 51.
Macleod,F., and Lambe,P., (June 2008) 'Dynamics of adult participation in part-time education and training: results from the British Household Panel Survey' in Special Edition of Research Papers in Education , 23, Vol, N0. 2, June 2008, 231-241.
Lambe, P., (2007) 'Conceptualising and measuring agency using the British Household Panel Survey', Education Line, www.Leeds.ac.uk/educol/
Macleod,F., and Lambe,P., (2007) 'Patterns and trends in part-time adult education participation in relation to UK nation, class, gender, age and disability', International Journal of Lifelong Education
Macleod,F., and Lambe,P., (2006) The occurence and timing of returns to adult learning among 1997/1998 full-time education leavers in England, in Armstrong,P., Coles,R., O'Rourke,R., and Zukas, M., (Eds) Inter-Cultural Perspectives on Research into Adult Learning (Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of SCUTREA, Leeds University.
Lambe,P., et al (2005) ‘Elections and Public Opinion: Plus Ca Change’ Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Number 2, April 2005, Oxford.
Lambe,P., et al (2004) Gender imbalance in representative democracy’ Occasional Paper 10, Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast, ISBN No. 0853898766.Lambe,P., et al (2003) ‘A chronology of political events in 2002’ British Parties and Electoral Review, Vol.13 Cass.
Other academic activities
American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 2008, New York, USA
Co-authored paper presented - 'Role Configurations and Pathways : A Latent Structure Approach to Studying the Likelihood of British Women Participating in Adult Education from Early to Mid-Adulthood'.
American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 2007, Chicago, USA
Co-authored paper presented - 'What are the Odds of making an Early transition into Adult Education? Evidence from a Cohort of 1997 initial phase leavers in England? '
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) annual meeting of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) 2007 Ghent, Belgium Co-authored paper presented - 'Examining pathways of adult education in Britain: the quantitative stage of a mixed methodological approach.'
