Teaching Excellence & Awards
Karen is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, and holds a PG Dip. in Higher Education & Practice from the University of East Anglia.
Karen a dedicated teacher. She has won several awards for excellence in teaching, including the Students' Union Transforming Education Award: Advisor of the Year in 2017-18, UEA Student Law Society award in the category: ‘Lecturer who makes me want to attend a 9am lecture!,’ in the academic year 2015-16, and the UEA Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013.
She has also been nominated for the OUP Law Teacher of the Year award in 2019, and a Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Salford in 2011 and 2008.
Teaching Pedagogy
Karen contributed as executive member of BILETA to the development of a Lecture Recording Policy, and to the development of JISC's National Centre for AI development of a report A Pathway to responsible, ethical AI, and contributed to the development of UEA's Lecture Capture Policy.
Karen conducted a pilot study on the use of films and documentaries to teach Internet law during the academic year 2016-17. She disseminated the findings of the study in three different ways: a poster at the University’s Learning & Teaching Conference in May 2017, and at the BILETA conference 2018, and an article in the University’s Learning Highlights Magazine (Spring edition).
Karen conducted a study on the use of ‘clicker quizzes’ to improve interaction and engagement in Lectures and as a formative assessment tool in 2011. She presented the findings of the clicker study at the 6th annual Education in a Changing Environment Conference where the paper was shortlisted for a prize. She also disseminated the findings of the action study in the journal: Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.