PLACEMENTS

This page provides background information, evidence and publications about the Peer Enhanced E-Placement approach and model. PEEP is a collaboration between Professor Lisa Taylor and Professor Gilly Salmon. PEEP deploys the 5 stage model, pedagogical and curriculum building blocks and storyboarding. E-placements have been transformational in the health education sector since they began during the pandemic- and have now massively scaled. .Contact

It's 5 years since PEEP began, in the pandemic. Please watch our short video about the journey!

1. Book

Taylor, L. (2023). Constructing Online Work-Based Learning Placements: Approaches to Pedagogy, Design, Planning and Implementation. Routledge: New York & Oxford. Publisher or Amazon.

2. Videos
PEEP Beginnings

Applications and Scaling Up

Achieving Online Health Placement Delivery – Deborah Lewis and Martin Rhodes

Early Implementations

Emergent and Wider Benefits

Peer Enhanced E-Placements – Accessibility, Diversity and Sustainability

3. Blogs

Placements post Covid (Taylor, 2020)
It’s Time for the Sector to Embrace Online Work Placements (Salmon, 2021)
Unblocking the Placements Logjam – WonkHE Blog (Salmon, 2021)
Clinical Placements – Online Options During COVID-19 and Beyond (Taylor, 2020)
Advance HE Placements post Covid-19 – time for re-evaluation? | Advance HE

4. Journal Articles

Robinson, C., Buckingham, S., & Freeman, J. (2024). Evaluating the Impact of a 2-Week Peer Enhanced E-Placement (PEEP) on Pre-Registration Physiotherapy Students’ Attitudes, Self-Perceived Confidence, and Competence in Delivering Telerehabilitation. International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care, 12(1): 86–104. DOI Link
Stears, A, Thomas, J, Lane, J, Salisbury, L, Rhodes, J, Ackerman, L, Baer, G. (2022). The evaluation of a Peer Enhanced eLearning Placement (PEEP) in Physiotherapy (pre-registration) education, Physiotherapy 022 (114) Supplement 1 E18 February 01 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2021.12.262
Taylor, L., & Salmon, G. (2021). Enhancing Peer Learning through Online Placements for Health and Social Care Professions. International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care, 9(2): 1-10. DOI Link

5. Case Studies

Occupational Therapy Virtual Practice Placement (Taylor, 2020)
PEEP in Occupational Therapy News (July 2020). PEEP- a virtual alternaive placement. See in contents.
Erasmus+ (2023) Employability in Programme Development
Rioja, M (2024) The evolution of the Peer Enhanced e-Placement

6. Reports and White Papers

Pandemic Powered Improvements – Council of Deans Report (2022)
Digitally Enhanced Blended Learning – Policy Connect (2024)

7. Webinars

Post Pandemic Progress Council of Deans, Health 2024