Karen Beck BSc.(Honours) in Health Studies
Administrator
Clinical Trials Research Unit
ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
SHEFFIELD
S1 4DA
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0795
email : karen.beck@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I am the administrator in the Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) and am responsible for overseeing the clerical and administrative support in the unit.
I am also responsible for the following:
- Costing of studies at grant application stage
- Monitoring expenditure on the financial accounts held in the CTRU
- Overseeing staff training in the CTRU and ensuring that members of staff have received GCP training and in-house health and safety training to meet legal requirements
- Arranging regular standard operating procedure training sessions for all staff and keeping up to date training record files for CTRU and associated staff
- Developing standard operating procedures in the administrative area for the CTRU
- Study administration on the CoSMoS Trial and the CoPE Trial
I have held a variety of administrative/secretarial/clerical posts over the past 15 years which have given me a wealth of experience. Prior to working in the CTRU, I have worked in the Section of Public Health, ScHARR supporting the development of the NICE Clinical Guidelines and before that in Research & Development at the NHS Executive Trent and at South Yorkshire Police.
Qualifications and Training
Academic
BSc. (Honours) in Health Studies 2.2, The Open University
Certificate in Health Promotion, The Open University
Clinical Trials
GCP Training
How To Be An Effective Clinical Trials Administrator
Standard Operating Procedures
Site File and Site File Maintenance
IT
ECDL Advanced Databases
ECDL Advanced Word Processing
ECDL Advanced Spreadsheets
ECDL Advanced Presentations
ECDL (all modules)
Administrative/Secretarial
NVQ Level 3 Business Administration
Legal Secretarial Certificate
RSA Stage III Typing
RSA Stage II Word Processing
RSA Stage II Audio Typing