
Dr Alex Swainson
BSc
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Research interests
My interests include promoting undergraduate skill development and integrating innovative technologies into the curriculum. Recent projects I have worked on include co-developing an interactive essay-writing tutorial for first-year physiology students with colleagues from Bristol and Cambridge, and designing a scaffolded approach to teaching R coding for life sciences undergraduates. I am currently developing and implementing AI tools in undergraduate teaching to promote students’ AI literacy and critical evaluation. Alongside my teaching-focused role, my research interests also include the effect of healthy ageing on motor learning.
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2026Aging and Motor Adaptation: Increased Movement Variability, Slowing Rates of Adaptation, and Smaller Aftereffects
Psychology and Aging
Corrigendum to "Slower rates of prism adaptation but intact aftereffects in patients with early to mid-stage Parkinson's disease" [Neuropsychologia, 189, (2023) Epub 2023: 108681]
Neuropsychologia
An Interactive, Self-Guided Tutorial on Scientific Writing for First Year Physiology Students
Current Research in Physiology
Facing the fear: a scaffolding approach to teaching life sciences undergraduates R coding
Frontiers in Education
Slower rates of prism adaptation but intact aftereffects in patients with early to mid-stage Parkinson's disease
Neuropsychologia
Thesis
Motor learning in health, ageing and disease
Supervisors
Award date
21/06/2022



