Christian Gray

Dr Christian Gray is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education (Personalised Learning & USMLE Prep) at The University of Queensland Medical School. His work focuses on personalised learning, assessment and preparation for medical licensing examinations, with a particular interest in understanding how individual students learn, prepare and adapt.

Dr Gray joined UQ in 2019, having previously been a Lecturer in Infection and Immunity and Immunology Discipline Lead at Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Academic Practice from the University of Plymouth, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Prior to moving into medical education, Dr Gray undertook postdoctoral research across a range of areas in immunology, including tumour immunology, rheumatoid arthritis, pneumococcal immunity, mastitis resistance in dairy cattle and vaccine development. His biomedical research has been published in journals including Blood, Cancer Research, The Journal of Immunology, Clinical Cancer Research and Mucosal Immunology.

At UQ, Dr Gray's scholarship focuses on how students prepare for high-stakes assessment and medical licensing examinations and how assessment and learning data can be used to understand student readiness and learning behaviour. Within the UQ-Ochsner medical program, he has developed and coordinated structured preparation for USMLE Step 1. His research includes longitudinal investigation of student preparation and question-bank engagement, including changes associated with the transition of USMLE Step 1 to pass/fail reporting.

His work in medical licensing assessment extends internationally. He has contributed chapters to Cambridge University Press texts providing guidance for students preparing for and taking the UK Medical Licensing Assessment Applied Knowledge Test (MLA AKT). His broader educational scholarship includes personalised learning, support for students experiencing academic difficulty, inclusive approaches to learning and assessment, and understanding how learners adapt their preparation in response to assessment.

More broadly, Dr Gray's research interests extend to learning and learning behaviour across higher education, including the emerging role of artificial intelligence and its relationship with cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of learning. He currently supervises doctoral research in this area.