Professor Louise Beard
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Email
lhbeard@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873336
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Location
6.307, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Professor in Biomedical Science Lecturer of the Year, Essex Education Awards, Nov 2016 Excellence in Teaching ETA Award 2016 (Experienced Staff), University of Essex PhD in clinical, genetic and expression studies of human channelopathies, Neurogenetics group, Institute of Neurology, NHNN, Queen Square, UCL 2001
Qualifications
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Cadenza level D3, 2015: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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PG CHEP, University of Essex, 2011: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Phd. Molecular Neurogenetics: Institute of Neurology, UCL 2001.
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BSc Hons Biomedical Science with Molecular Biology: King's College London 1997.
Appointments
University of Essex
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Athena Swan Lead, School of Life Sciences, University of Essex (1/9/2018 - 1/7/2022)
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Senior Tutor, pastoral lead, School of Life Sciences, University of Essex (1/9/2016 - 1/7/2022)
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Course Director for Biological Sciences and Human Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Essex (1/9/2019 - 1/7/2022)
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Member of Senate, University of Essex (1/10/2018 - 1/10/2022)
Other academic
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Faculty Dean Undergraduate, Faculty of Science and Health, University of Essex (1/7/2022 - present)
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Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Essex (1/10/2015 - present)
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Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex (1/9/2008 - 30/9/2015)
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Lecturer, Access to HE, Health and Social Care, Colchester Institute (1/2/2004 - 30/6/2008)
Research and professional activities
Current research
Use of VLEs and other learning techonologies in teaching and learning.
Use of online learning technologies and clickers in teaching
I host Webinars to demonstrate 'Mastering Biology' a Pearson VLE as an assessment and monitoring tool.
Conferences and presentations
'Incentivised reading' using Mastering Biology to encourage earlier engagement by students. Oral presentation at the HEA STEM Annual learning and teaching conference, 30 April-1 May 2014, University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2014
'Use of online tools to monitor engagement and performance in student learning' at the HEA STEM Annual Conference at Imperial College London, 12 April 2012
London, United Kingdom, 2012
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Research Project in Biomedical Science (BS831)
Publications
Journal articles (23)
Hepburn, LJ., Beard, LH. and Etsebeth, K-L., Pandemic pedagogy in Life Sciences. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research. 10 (9), 1-11
Alsam, S., Beard, L. and Hepburn, L., Enhancing employability through hospital placements for Biomedical Science students. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research. 11 (3), 64-77
Beard, LH., (2017). ‘Incentivised reading’- Using an online VLE to measure engagement and attainment in student learning. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research. 5 (11), 74-86
Rajakulendran, S., Graves, TD., Labrum, RW., Kotzadimitriou, D., Eunson, LH., Davis, MB., Davies, R., Wood, NW., Kullmann, DM., Hanna, MG. and Schorge, S., (2010). Genetic and functional characterisation of the P/Q calcium channel in episodic ataxia with epilepsy. The Journal of Physiology. 588 (11), 1905-1913
Labrum, RW., Rajakulendran, S., Graves, TD., Eunson, LH., Bevan, R., Sweeney, MG., Hammans, SR., Tubridy, N., Britton, T., Carr, LJ., Ostergaard, JR., Kennedy, CR., Al-Memar, A., Kullmann, DM., Schorge, S., Temple, K., Davis, MB. and Hanna, MG., (2009). Large scale calcium channel gene rearrangements in episodic ataxia and hemiplegic migraine: implications for diagnostic testing. Journal of Medical Genetics. 46 (11), 786-791
Graves, TD., Imbrici, P., Kors, EE., Terwindt, GM., Eunson, LH., Frants, RR., Haan, J., Ferrari, MD., Goadsby, PJ., Hanna, MG., van den Maagdenberg, AMJM. and Kullmann, DM., (2008). Premature stop codons in a facilitating EF-hand splice variant of CaV2.1 cause episodic ataxia type 2. Neurobiology of Disease. 32 (1), 10-15
Khan, NL., Jain, S., Lynch, JM., Pavese, N., Abou-Sleiman, P., Holton, JL., Healy, DG., Gilks, WP., Sweeney, MG., Ganguly, M., Gibbons, V., Ghandi, S., Vaughan, J., Eunson, LH., Katzenschlager, R., Gayton, J., Lennox, G., Revesz, T., Nicholl, D., Bhatia, KP., Quinn, N., Brooks, D., Lees, AJ., Davis, MB., Piccini, P., Singleton, AB. and Wood, NW., (2005). Mutations in the gene LRRK2 encoding dardarin (PARK8) cause familial Parkinson's disease: clinical, pathological, olfactory and functional imaging and genetic data. Brain. 128 (12), 2786-2796
Imbrici, P., Eunson, LH., Graves, TD., Bhatia, KP., Wadia, NH., Kullmann, DM. and Hanna, MG., (2005). Late-onset episodic ataxia type 2 due to an in-frame insertion in CACNA1A. Neurology. 65 (6), 944-946
Eunson, LH., Graves, TD. and Hanna, MG., (2005). New calcium channel mutations predict aberrant RNA splicing in episodic ataxia. Neurology. 65 (2), 308-310
Pulkes, T., Liolitsa, D., Eunson, LH., Rose, M., Nelson, IP., Rahman, S., Poulton, J., Marchington, DR., Landon, DN., Debono, AG., Morgan-Hughes, JA. and Hanna, MG., (2005). New phenotypic diversity associated with the mitochondrial tRNASer(UCN) gene mutation. Neuromuscular Disorders. 15 (5), 364-371
Imbrici, P., Jaffe, SL., Eunson, LH., Davies, NP., Herd, C., Robertson, R., Kullmann, DM. and Hanna, MG., (2004). Dysfunction of the brain calcium channel CaV2.1 in absence epilepsy and episodic ataxia. Brain. 127 (12), 2682-2692
Kinali, M., Jungbluth, H., Eunson, LH., Sewry, CA., Manzur, AY., Mercuri, E., Hanna, MG. and Muntoni, F., (2004). Expanding the phenotype of potassium channelopathy: severe neuromyotonia and skeletal deformities without prominent Episodic Ataxia. Neuromuscular Disorders. 14 (10), 689-693
Rea, R., Spauschus, A., Eunson, LH., Hanna, MG. and Kullmann, DM., (2002). Variable K+ channel subunit dysfunction in inherited mutations of KCNA1. The Journal of Physiology. 538 (1), 5-23
Jouvenceau, A., Eunson, LH., Spauschus, A., Ramesh, V., Zuberi, SM., Kullmann, DM. and Hanna, MG., (2001). Human epilepsy associated with dysfunction of the brain P/Q-type calcium channel. The Lancet. 358 (9284), 801-807
Davies, NP., Eunson, LH., Samuel, M. and Hanna, MG., (2001). Sodium channel gene mutations in hypokalemic periodic paralysis: An uncommon cause in the UK. Neurology. 57 (7), 1323-1325
Eunson, LH., Rea, R., Zuberi, SM., Youroukos, S., Panayiotopoulos, CP., Liguori, R., Avoni, P., McWilliam, RC., Stephenson, JBP., Hanna, MG., Kullmann, DM. and Spauschus, A., (2000). Clinical, genetic, and expression studies of mutations in the potassium channel gene KCNA1 reveal new phenotypic variability. Annals of Neurology. 48 (4), 647-656
Munchau, A., (2000). A new family with paroxysmal exercise induced dystonia and migraine: a clinical and genetic study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 68 (5), 609-614
Davies, NP., (2000). Clinical, electrophysiological, and molecular genetic studies in a new family with paramyotonia congenita. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 68 (4), 504-507
Davies, NP., Eunson, LH., Gregory, RP., Mills, KR., Morrison, PJ. and Hanna, MG., (2000). A novel mutation in the voltage sensing region of the skeletal muscle sodium channel gene in a family with paramyotonia congenita. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 68 (2), 264-264
Eunson, LH., Rea, R., Zuberi, SM., Youroukos, S., Panayiotopoulos, CP., Liguori, R., Avoni, P., McWilliam, RC., Stephenson, JBP., Hanna, MG., Kullmann, DM. and Spauschus, A., (2000). Clinical, genetic, and expression studies of mutations in the potassium channel gene KCNA1 reveal new phenotypic variability. Annals of Neurology. 48 (4), 647-656
Zuberi, SM., Eunson, LH., Spauschus, A., De Silva, R., Tolmie, J., Wood, NW., McWilliam, RC., Stephenson, JB., Kullmann, DM. and Hanna, MG., (1999). A novel mutation in the human voltage-gated potassium channel gene (Kv1.1) associates with episodic ataxia type 1 and sometimes with partial epilepsy. Brain. 122 (5), 817-825
SPAUSCHUS, A., EUNSON, L., HANNA, MG. and KULLMANN, DM., (1999). Functional Characterization of a Novel Mutation in KCNA1 in Episodic Ataxia Type 1 Associated with Epilepsy. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 868 (1), 442-446
Sasaki, R., Takano, H., Kamakura, K., Kaida, K., Hirata, A., Saito, M., Tanaka, H., Kuzuhara, S. and Tsuji, S., (1999). A Novel Mutation in the Gene for the Adult Skeletal Muscle Sodium Channel α-Subunit (SCN4A) That Causes Paramyotonia Congenita of von Eulenburg. Archives of Neurology. 56 (6), 692-692
