One of the areas of research and publications I have been working on over a period of time and more regularly recently is the development of short articles for the Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine that support Continuing Professional Development. I have now been on the editorial board of the Journal since July 2009.

One of my recent papers "Adding variety to your learning activities." was as Editors' Pick for September in Informa's Medical Education Newsletter.

The complete list to date in A-Z order is:

Accessible Web Design. Continuing professional development. Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine 2004; 27(3): 131-134.

Adding Variety to Your Learning Activities. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2010; Vol. 33(2): 83–85.
Free online http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/17453054.2010.481781

Ethical dimensions to reflection.  Learning and CPD.  Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2011; Vol. 34(1): 36-37.

Giving a presentation. Continuing professional development. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2006; 29(3): 115-118.

Google scholar and e-journals. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2010, Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2010; 33(3): 122-125.

Maintaining Evidence-based Practice. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2007; 30(3): 132 – 134.

Patient Information Design. Continuing professional development. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2006; 29(3): 166-167.

Patient privacy. Continuing professional development. Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine 2004; 27 (1): 37-38.

Personalising your learning. Continuing professional development. Journal of Visual Communication Media in Medicine 2009; 32(3-4): 105-107.

Sharing Good Practice. Continuing professional development. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2006; 29(2): 84-86.

Supporting patients. Continuing professional development. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2007; 30(1): 27-28.

Team based review and reflection. Continuing professional development. Journal of Visual Communication Media in Medicine 2010; 33(1): 39-40.

The reflection bookshelf. Learning and CPD.  Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2011, submitted for publication.

Writing up a case presentation. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 2011, In Press.

One of the intriguing things about scientific work is that when trying different techniques you often see something very unexpected. The fluoresence of different types of nuts is intersteing so next step as with the photographs above was to photograph different types of nougat.

My current work is moving in several directions:

Forensic photography

• Use of infrared for the detection of underlying tattoos where there have been cover-up tattoos.
• Use of implants to support identification http://www.opsit.org.uk.
• Paper being submitted to Fingerprint Whorld following a presentation at the Fingerprint Society seminar in June 2009.

Scientific and technical photography

• Uses of software to create panoramas and high resolution images
• The Hairs project looking at stitching whole hairs for identification is an example of the application of stitching in a scientific context.

Continuous Professional Development

• Development of materials to support Learning and CPD for the Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine the journal of the Institute of Medical Illustrators.
• Recent version about 'Adding Variety to Your Learning Activities'. Free online http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/17453054.2010.481781