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Congratulations to ISTM members on their promotions
Congratulations to ISTM members on...
Promotion to Professor:
Prof Lindsay Bashford. Lindsay Bashford has been promoted to Professor in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the Medical School over the past 10 years. Whilst Lindsay's careers as an educator and researcher have developed sequentially rather than in parallel as is more usual, his promotion also recognises a very major contribution to understanding membrane transport, reflected in well over 100 publications and H-index of 35. His research focused on the behaviour of vesicular and cell membranes using optical, and other physical methods to monitor and explain their structure and function. Lindsay's studies led to elucidation of the proton-pumping mechanisms that underpin transport and storage of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a discovery that is now the paradigm for this topic in textbooks.
Lindsay received his MA and DPhil in Biochemistry from Oxford. After postdoctoral fellowships in the USA he moved to St George's where he rose to become Vice-Dean of Undergraduate Medicine and Head of the Department of Biochemistry & Immunology. He moved to Keele in 2002 as a Reader and a founding member of staff in the new Medical School. Over the ensuing decade he has led the development of the basic science component of the Keele curriculum and had an enormous influence on the overall MB ChB programme and its full accreditation by the GMC.
As Director of Academic Studies he played a major role in recruiting and developing the strong team of biomedical scientists who now work across all five years of the curriculum to integrate basic science with clinical learning as well as undertaking laboratory research within ISTM. Lindsay is active in his role as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, NHS Governor and external examiner as well as making significant contributions to the University as Chair of the School Learning & Teaching Committee, Chair of the Inter-professional Education Group and a member of FLTC.
Promotion to Senior Lecturer:
Dr Sheila Hope. Sheila Hope studied for her BSc in Genetics at Glasgow University, before moving to Birmingham for her PhD in molecular cell biology (funded by the then Cancer Research Campaign, now CRUK). She stayed at Birmingham as a Research Fellow for three years, working on cancer research, before moving to Keele as a Lecturer in Biochemistry in 1995. She continued researching into cancer, apoptosis (cell death) and viruses associated with those processes, supervising five PhD students, attracting around £400k of research grant income, and publishing a number of highly cited papers.
Sheila has been keenly involved in the development and accreditation of several programmes in Life Sciences and, in addition to a number of major School roles, Sheila serves on the University's Academic Appeals Committee and the Occupational Health & Safety Committee. Always a popular teacher, Sheila really started to develop her educational skills over the last 5-6 years, introducing a whole range of innovative teaching methods, such as a CSI-style group exercise, and she has been an early adopter of many of the technologies such as electronic voting systems and screencast AV feedback. As well as involvement in sharing good practice at Keele, Sheila has made sure that her approaches are shared externally, through grants, publications and lectures; she became a Fellow of the HEA in 2011, and was awarded one of the prestigious Keele Teaching Excellence Awards in 2012.
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