Profile
As Immunology theme lead across MBBS I am responsible for delivery of immunology teaching across the medical programmes. I am module lead for two modules, principle internal examiner for graduate entry medicine and project supervisor for biomedical research projects. I am passionate about communicating science and as a STEM ambassador work with the Centre of the Cell and in other setting to engaged students.
After completing my undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Southampton I trained as a Clinical Scientist in Immunology at Southampton General Hospital, during which time I completed an MSc in Medical Immunology at King’s College London. I then spent a year monitoring clinical trials at Oxford BioMedica and subsequently moved to the University of Oxford as a research assistant and DPhil candidate investigating T cell phenotype and function in inflammatory arthritis.
As a postdoc, also in Oxford, my research focused on using cellular techniques to investigate T cells and neutrophils in inflammatory arthritis and I became involved in teaching. I completed a PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, gaining Fellowship of the HEA. This precipitated my move into a purely teaching role at QMUL, initially as a lecturer in Immunology and Infection, delivering postgraduate taught courses in microbiology, before moving to the medical school to take up my current position.