Biography
Charlotte holds an MD from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a Master of Health Professions’ Education from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her PhD explored the cultural and social meanings of smoking in children’s families, and it was awarded from the Department of Family Medicine, Institute of Public Health Research, Odense, Southern University of Denmark. She was also awarded the MRCGP from the Royal College of General Practitioners in London, UK for her work with the national GP Curriculum as The RCGP Medical Director of Curriculum.
Her work has been a combination of research, teaching, faculty development, research and educational supervision, educational policy making, development projects, evaluation and implementation of educational interventions and guidelines. She has worked at different academic institutions in Denmark, UK and Kenya and has been in charge of many local and national development projects within health promotion and medical education, including faculty development, research capacity building and policy making. She has previously set up and convened several interdisciplinary researchers’ fora, ie “Education across borders” (2010-2016) for researchers working with educational research and development, based at The Faculty of Education and St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and “The Arts & Sciences Researchers’ Forum” (2012-2016) a researchers’ forum for development of research in the cross lines of science and arts, based at The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, UK.
Research
Her main research expertise is within qualitative research, participatory action research, arts-based research, and process evaluation projects. The focus of her research has predominantly been on medical education in general practice/family medicine and health professions’ education and development, global health, research methodology development, research capacity building, faculty development, and lay perspectives on health and disease.
Publications
In 2018 two of her publications on GP professionalism studied through qualitative and arts-based research was included in the GP literary canon for The Norwegian National Research School of General Practice, describing the currently most influential publications on the essence of general practice. Below these two publications are marked with *.
- Pley C, van der Heijden MR, Tulinius C. , A health professional’s guide to the intersection of public health with intellectual property rights in trade and investment: the case of tobacco plain packaging, J Public Health Policy. 2020 Mar;41(1):52-62. doi: 10.1057/s41271-019-00195-0.
- Quine A, Tulinius C, Supporting trainees in challenging learning environments – is there a way? Education for primary Care, January 2019; 17:1-6
- Ndomoto L, Hibble A, Obuzor G, Nthusi N, Quine A, Chahal P, Barasa SO, Nyanja N, Tulinius C, Understanding the Fundamental Elements of Global Health: Using the Sen Capability Approach as the Theoretical Framework for a Health Needs Assessment in Deprived Communities, Education for Health, April 2018, vol 31 (1), p. 43-7. Available from http://www.educationforhealth.net/article.asp?issn=1357-6283;year=2018;v...
- Nyanja TAN, Tulinius C. Relationships matter: contraceptive choices among HIV-positive women in Tanzania. African J AIDS Res [Internet]. Taylor & Francis; 2017 Apr 3 ;16(2):109–17. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2989/16085906.2017.1313284
- Tulinius C, Hibble A, Unfolding dissonance: An example of how arts-based research can transform the understanding of reflexive medical praxis through interculturality, in Burnard P, MacKinlay E, Powell K (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Inter-cultural Arts Research, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, London UK, 2016, chapter 18, pp. 192-203.
- *Tulinius C, Hibble A, Stensland P, Rudebeck CE, “Being a GP in the Nordic Countries”, A photo book communicating the arts-based qualitative multi-method study, published by Tulinius C, August 2013. ISBN 978-87-996420-0-7, http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4480717-being-a-gp-in-the-nordic-countries
- Tulinius C, �?We’re all in the same boat’: Potentials and tensions when learning through sharing uncertainty in peer supervision groups’, in Clinical uncertainty in primary care, edited by Launer J and Sommers L, July 2013, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4614-6811-0
- Fristrup T, Tulinius C, Hølge-Hazelton B, Academic Strangeness as Uncomfortable Reflexivity and Academic Reflexivity as Uncomfortable Strangeness in Higher Education, in The Stranger, On understanding of and socializing with the stranger in a globalised and constantly changing world. Cursiv, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, No 16, 2015: 117-39. Available from http://www.forskningsdatabasen.dk/en/catalog/2291731094
- Tulinius C, Nielsen ABS, Hansen L, Hermann C, Vlasova M, Dalsted R “Increasing the general level of academic capacity in general practice: Introducing mandatory research training to GP trainees through a participatory research process, Quality in Primary Care, 2012;20(1):57-67
- Tulinius C, Hølge-Hazelton B, When the spiral of action research collapses: Transforming communication monologues into collective research dialogues through the arts, Action Research Journal, 9(1), March 2011; 42-64.
- Tulinius C, Hølge-Hazelton B, Continuing Professional Development for general practitioners: Supporting the development of professionalism, Medical Education; April 2010: 412-20.
- * Baarts C; Tulinius C, Reventlow S, Reflexivity – a strategy for a patient-centered approach in general practice”, Family Practice 2000, 17(5): 430-4.
Teaching and Supervisions
Charlotte has more than 25 years of experiences in teaching, facilitation of group-based development and learning, and educational as well as research supervision. She has delivered education at undergraduate and postgraduate level within medicine, for faculty and for researchers at all academic levels in many countries, as well as to interdisciplinary groups of health care deliverers and professionals from other academic environments. She has a long record of development and delivery of regional and national programmes/courses, development of teaching and learning materials and of leadership in educational development projects, all in several countries. The last 15 years she has used and continuously developed teaching and communication methods and strategies supporting tailored experiential learning and the embodyment of learning.
Other Professional Activities
Her role with The Public Health Education Group includes:
- teaching qualitative research methods,
- review of teaching methods,
- development of educational research programme related to the public and global health teaching,
- supervision of students undertaking global health projects, and
- continuing professional development for teachers within the Public Health Education Group.