School of Life Sciences

I was appointed as a Lecturer at Keele University in 2003 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry for a number of years, I took a career break to have my family in 1985 before coming to Keele in 1989, as a mature undergraduate student. I obtained a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry in 1992 and enjoyed the academic environment so much that I stayed on to complete my PhD, on the mechanisms of cell death in the endocrine pancreas, in 1995. I then spent a further three years at Keele as a postdoctoral research fellow, continuing my research in the field of diabetes mellitus, before taking up a lectureship at Liverpool John Moores University in 1998. Five years later I came back to Keele – there’s obviously something about the place that I like!

Throughout my academic career, my research interests have focussed on how pancreatic beta cells are destroyed during the onset of type 1 diabetes mellitus. In particular, looking at how signalling pathways involving nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species can lead to apoptosis in beta cells.

• LSC10030 Case Studies in Medicine (Module Manager)

• LSC20005 Endocrinology and Signalling (Module Manager)

• LSC20040 Professional Relationships

• LSC30007 Biology Dissertation

• LSC30008/ 12 Experimental Research Projects

• LSC-30014 Biochemistry research Project (Non-experimental)

• LSC30015 Biology of Disease

• LSC30019 Applied Life Sciences Placement

• LSC30026 Case Studies in Biomedical Sciences (Module Manager)