Professor Maxine Lintern is Associate Dean for Learning Teaching, Research and Scholarship for the Faculty of Health at Birmingham City University. She is the Director of Research and founder of the Centre for Health and Social Care Research. Her background is in biochemistry and neurophysiology and she has always been profoundly interested in the links and interfaces between research and teaching hence her unusual portfolio of responsibility! The research strategy she has developed for the Faculty overtly links all research activity back into the development of innovative teaching environment...