Simon Albon

Biography

Dr. Simon Albon has completed a bachelor of science in chemistry, a master of science in chemistry, and a faculty certificate in higher education at UBC. In 2014 he completed a PhD in curriculum studies in the Faculty of Education at UBC and most recently, a certificate from UBC’s Academic Leadership Development Program. Dr. Albon is a senior instructor and associate director of the Faculty’s Office of Educational Support and Development. He teaches medicinal chemistry in the BSc(Pharm) and new Entry-to-Practice PharmD program and has research interests in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Dr. Albon is a proud member of UBC’s Quarter Century Club.

Research Interest

Current research interests include examining the scientific foundations of pharmacy education and in particular, the role, status and integration of the basic pharmaceutical sciences in contemporary learning-centered Entry-to-Practice pharmacy programs. Dr. Albon is also exploring the “teaching-scholarly teaching-SoTL-SoTL leadership” continuum with pharmacy educators to attempt to build educational scholarship and SoTL as a legitimate scholarly discipline in pharmaceutical sciences at UBC and beyond. His most recent research study is focused on examining threshold concepts in educational scholarship in pharmacy education and related faculty development opportunities necessary to build SoTL capacity in the Faculty.