Dr Karen Stanley BSc PhD FHEA
Deputy Head of School (interim)
Summary
I am currently Deputy Head for the School of Bioscience and Chemistry providing professional and academic leadership. I am also a member of our school leadership team. I have previously held a range of department roles including Professional Lead for Biomedical Science, Assessment Lead and Lead for Apprenticeships and Employer Led Provision.
I currently lead the final year research project module that is undertaken in the NHS workplace by healthcare science apprentices and a second year module in ecology for our BSc Hons Biology course. I am a member of the Society for Applied Microbiology and the Microbiology Society.
About
I joined Sheffield Hallam as a microbiologist in 2003 after undertaking various postdoctoral appointments researching the environmental fate of food borne pathogens including Campylobacter and E.coli 0157. At Hallam I have been involved in research on the potential role of the hospital environment as a reservoir of healthcare infections.
I am currently Deputy Head for the School of Bioscience and Chemistry providing professional, academic and operational leadership. I am a member of our school leadership team. I have previously held a range of department roles including Professional Lead for Biomedical science, Department Assessment Lead and Lead for Apprenticeships and Employer Led Provision. Prior to this I was a member of the college international team which supported recruitment of international students and development and liaison of summer schools, collaborative postgraduate courses, study abroad and continuing professional development opportunities for healthcare work forces.
I currently lead the final year research project module that is undertaken in the NHS workplace by healthcare science apprentices and a second year module in ecology for our BSc Biology course. I previously been involved with a range of aspects of curriculum development and developed and led a range of cross programme modules, especially in our post graduate programme, including Professional Development, an NHS Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Project and work based learning modules for part time undergraduate Biomedical Science practitioners and apprentices.
I am a member of the Society for Applied Microbiology and the Microbiology Society.
Specialist areas of interest
Environmental microbiology, pathogens in the environment
Teaching
Department of Biosciences and Chemistry
Courses taught:
- BSc Biology
- Level 6 Healthcare Science Practitioner Apprenticeship
Modules taught:
- Ecology, Advanced Evolution and Animal Behaviour
- Level 6 Final year project
- Level 6 and 7 Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Project supervision
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Characterisation of putative enterobacterales isolated from hospital sinks
The role of the hospital environment in hospital acquired infection
Publications
Journal articles
Olvera-RamÃrez, A.M., McEwan, N.R., Stanley, K., Nava-Diaz, R., & Aguilar-Tipacamú, G. (2023). . Animals, 13 (8).
Duncan, S.H., McWilliam Leitch, E.C., Stanley, K.N., Richardson, A.J., Laven, R.A., Flint, H.J., & Stewart, C.S. (2004). . British journal of nutrition, 91 (5), 749.
Stanley, K., & Jones, K. (2003). . Journal of applied microbiology, 94 (s1), 104-113.
McWilliam Leitch, E.C., Duncan, S.H., Stanley, K.N., & Stewart, C.S. (2001). . Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 60 (2), 247-255.
James, C.E., Stanley, K.N., Allison, H.E., Flint, H.J., Stewart, C.S., Sharp, R.J., ... McCarthy, A.J. (2001). . Applied and environmental microbiology, 67 (9), 4335-4337.
Fitzgerald, C., Stanley, K., Andrew, S., & Jones, K. (2001). . Applied and environmental microbiology, 67 (4), 1429-1436.
Theses / Dissertations
Al-Luaibi, Y.Y.Y. (2015). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Smith, T., & Stanley, K.
Bradshaw, C.E. (2013). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Smith, T., & Stanley, K.
Kay, G.L. (2010). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Smith, T., Stanley, K., & Mills, G.
Postgraduate supervision
Distribution and survival or norovirus following vomiting and toilet flushing
Molecular Microbial ecology of hospital ward environments
Microbial ecology and antibiotic resistance in intensive care unit environments