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Dr Katherine Leys

Profile summary

  • Regional Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Life, Health and Che
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Life, Health & Chemical Sciences
  • katherine.leys

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Professional biography

Senior Lecturer and Science Staff Tutor, School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

 

Teaching interests

I am currently qualification director for Health Sciences and module chair of SK298: Brain, mind and mental health. I have previously been module chair of SDK228: Science of the mind: investigating mental health and SD226: Biological psychology.

I have written and produced teaching materials on dementia (for SK298 and SDK228); the science of olfaction (for SD329: Signals and perception: the science of the senses) and personalised medicine (for S201: Science and Society).

I have been an associate lecturer on many modules in the biological and health sciences, including SDK228, SD226, SD329 and S827:Concept to clinic.

Publications

The digital microscope: a tool for teaching laboratory skills in distance learning courses (2008)
Dommett, Eleanor J. and Leys, Katherine S.
Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 7(1) (A9-A12)

Calcium channel autoantibodies in the lambert‐eaton myasthenic syndrome (1991-03)
Leys, Katherine; Lang, Bethan; Johnston, Irene and Newsom-Davis, John
Annals of Neurology, 29(3) (pp. 307-314)