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Karen Birmingham
Karen Birmingham
Centre for Academic Child Health,
School of Social and Community Medicine
University of Bristol
QUALIFICATION
1980
State Registered Nurse (SRN)
The Royal London Hospital
1980
Registered Mental Nurse (RMN)
The Royal London Hospital
1983
Diploma: Psychosocial & Family Centred Nursing
The Cassell Hospital
EMPLOYMENT
2016 – present
Research Fellow, Centre for Academic Child Health, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol.
2014 – 2015
Research Fellow, Centre for Child & Adolescent Health, University of Bristol.
2010 – 2014
Project Manager, Centre for Child & Adolescent Health University of Bristol.
2008 – 2014
Research Ethics Manager, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC),Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol.
1995 – 2008
Project Manager, ALSPAC, University of Bristol.
1992 – 1994
Project Manager (½ time), Respiratory Research Group, Institute of Child Health, University of Bristol.
1994 – 1994
Research Assistant (½ time, maternity cover concurrent with above post) Unit of Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health, University of Bristol.
1989 – 1992
Project Manager, Unit of Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology (as above)
1988 – 1989
Medical Coder, Unit of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (as above).
1985 – 1986
Staff Nurse (Psychiatry) Bristol & Weston Health Authority.
1983 – 1984
Staff Nurse, The London Nurses Agency, London.
1982 – 1983
Ward Sister, The Cassel Hospital (Therapeutic Community), Surrey.
1976 – 1982
Student and Staff Nurse (Psychiatry), The Royal London Hospital.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
2016 – present
Writing book on the early history of the ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee, interviewing ALSPAC grandparents for transgenerational epigenetic study.
2010 – 2015
Establishing the ALSPAC Administrative Archive, creating the fully digitalised ALSPAC Ethics Archive and recording oral history interviews from significant individuals involved in the planning and implementation of the study.
2008 – 2014
As ALSPAC Research Ethics Manager, ensuring all ALSPAC ethics approvals and governance processes in place while simultaneously Secretary of the ALSPAC Ethics & Law Committee (from 1999).
1995 – 2008
Supervised team of nurses & midwives extracting, processing & cleaning data from 8000 obstetric and neonatal records. Project managed several ALSPAC sub-studies (for example carbon monoxide study, noise study).
1992 – 1994
Job-shared the project management of randomised controlled trial (asthma and house dust mite) and simultaneously conducted home interviews and videos for ALSPAC Twins Language Study (covering colleague’s maternity leave).
1989 – 1992
Appointed, trained and supervised team of medical data abstractors for study on Cancer in Childhood and Vitamin K. Simultaneously piloted ALSPAC questionnaires & biological sample collection (antenatal urine, placentas and cord blood for cell line development).
1988 – 1989
Medical coder (International Classification of Diseases & Occupational Coding) on 1958 & 1970 UK National Birth Cohorts
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