Dr Tsimpida has been actively involved in teaching in UK higher education since 2018, spanning the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Southampton, and Leicester. Her teaching encompasses a broad range of topics across public health, healthy ageing, psychology, sociology applied to medicine, and research methodology, delivered to undergraduate and postgraduate students including medical students.
At the University of Leicester, she co-leads the Public Health module in the BSc Clinical Sciences programme and supervises both undergraduate and PhD students. She also supervises PhD students at the University of Southampton, where she retains a Visiting Academic position.
At the University of Southampton, she led four postgraduate modules in the MSc Gerontology and MSc Global Ageing and Policy programmes and co-led university-wide undergraduate modules, reaching over 500 students annually. She undertook full redesigns of multiple modules, integrating research findings and evidence-based approaches into her courses. She also served as Thematic Cluster Lead for 'Data Skills and Methods' within the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP), overseeing interdisciplinary training for over 53 doctoral students across four universities.
At the University of Liverpool, she held the role of Theme Lead in Public, Preventative and Global Health for MBChB Year 2, where she led and coordinated a team of tutors, provided strategic oversight and direction of the curriculum, and ensured the design and delivery of a cohesive programme across 62 hours of teaching annually. She developed brand-new lectures and workshops attended by over 340 students, revised all materials across seven workshops, and authored 150 new multiple choice questions for Year 2 assessment, ensuring alignment with Faculty Assessment and Quality Standards Committee (FAQSC) requirements.
At the University of Manchester, she supervised medical and physician associate students in the Consultation Skills Learning Centre as part of the MBChB Medicine and MSc Physician Associate Studies programmes, and taught on the BSc Psychology programme across topics including developmental psychology, research methods, and data analysis. She also facilitated postgraduate teaching in healthcare informatics, covering health information governance and essentials of healthcare informatics.
Her commitment to pedagogic innovation is reflected in her development of 'microlearning' content using published research findings as primary teaching materials, and in the creation of MENTOR — a registered mobile educational tool supporting medical students' development of communication skills. She holds a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), representing advanced professional standing in teaching and learning in higher education.