After 20 years as an associate, Katharine joined the Interactive Studies Unit (ISU) as a teaching fellow and subsequently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2016.
Katharine is the deputy lead for the ICS Referred Student Programme and the deputy module lead for the Professional and Academic Skills Year 1 module of the MBChB programme. She lectures in clinical communication across the healthcare programmes with a main focus on Medicine. Katharine leads on the recruitment of Simulated Patients (SPs) for use in teaching and assessment on the professional healthcare programmes. She is a member of the admissions teams in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
From 2020-2022, Katharine held a College role with responsibility for Student Experience and Personal Academic Tutoring (PAT). During that time, she lead a team of Senior Tutors to embed a new PAT system across all Institutes in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences and was asked by HEFi to train Senior Tutors across the University.
Between 2017-2019, Katharine ran the Birmingham International Summer School (BISS) for the School of Biomedical Sciences. She retains an interest in international students, running a number of networking and social events for overseas students across the College.
Katharine has been instrumental in the development of Interprofessional Education (IPE) in the Institute of Clinical Sciences, sitting on the IPE steering group and developing several interprofessional teaching interventions.
Katharine describes teaching as “my happy place”, having been involved in teaching and training nationally and internationally for almost 30 years.