- Overview
- Research Interests
- Research Publications
- Teaching & Learning
Karen is a Lecturer in Public Health within the School of Health Sciences and the Institute for Global Health and Development.
Karen has a special interest in health promotion, tertiary well-being, and settings-based health improvement. Karen is an advisory group member of the national Healthy Universities Network and facilitates a Scottish Healthy Universities Group.
Before joining Queen Margaret University in 2019, Karen was a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland and Coordinator of the drug and alcohol curriculum within the MBChB programme at the University of Auckland.
Karen is a Registered General Nurse, has a BSc (Hons) Health Studies from the University of North London, MA Health Promotion from Brighton University and an MPH, and Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the University of Auckland.
Karen is a Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a peer reviewer for several national and international public health journals.
Karen’s research interests focus on workforce development and health promotion competencies.
Research Methods: Qualitative research
Karen coordinates and contributes to public health modules at the undergraduate and post graduate level both within the School of Health Sciences and Institute for Global Health and Development.
Karen supervises undergraduate and post graduate honours projects and dissertations within the School of Health Sciences.
