Karen Poulter
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+44 (0) 118 378 8023
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Associate Professor
- Co-Chair, Sub-Committee on Development and Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (DELT)
- Member by invitation, University Board of Teaching and Learning and Student Experience (UBTLSE)
- Member, Senate Standing Committee on Examination Results (SSCER)
- Member, Senate (elected UTF representative)
- Member, University Personal Titles Committee
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Areas of interest
- Applied statistics
- Pedagogy
- Leadership in Teaching and Learning (T&L)
Teaching
Current teaching (2025/26):
Research projects
I am teaching intensive and so do not carry out research which is linked to the department’s research groups. I do, however, sometimes engage in collaborative pedagogic research, primarily performing statistical analysis of data related to teaching and learning issues.
Background
Following completion of my PhD, I started work as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. This was a fixed term contract and in the middle of 1999 I returned to ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the then Department of Applied Statistics at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø. In January 2002 I became a Lecturer in what was the School (later Section) of Applied Statistics, and in 2010 Applied Statistics merged with the Department of Mathematics to create the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer (later renamed Associate Professor) in 2011 at the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø, and moved from a Teaching & Research to Teaching Intensive contract in 2013. I was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship in 2015.
Academic qualifications
1994 BSc Pure Mathematics (1st class honours), Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London
1995 MSc Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
1998 PhD Applied Statistics, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø
2003 Certificate in Further Professional Studies in Higher Education, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø
Professional bodies/affiliations
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy