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Karen graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2009 with an MA (Hons) in Public Policy. She began her career at the MRC/CSO Social Public Health Sciences Unit in 2010, where she was based in the Survey Office focusing on studies and recruitment administration for the Football Fans Training (FFIT) programme. In 2011, she joined the Understandings and Uses of Public Health Research programme, where her work concentrated on the representations of public health issues in newsprint media, particularly relating to the Scottish Government's Minimum Unit Pricing of alcohol policy and the impacts of second-hand smoking on children. Throughout her career, Karen has engaged in various research studies in General Practice and Primary Care, conducting qualitative interviews, focus groups, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials. Her research interests include the management of long-term conditions in adults with learning disabilities, mindfulness interventions for people with diabetes, epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease, and multiple sclerosis. Additionally, she contributed to projects evaluating primary care transformation in Scotland and worked on the EU FP7 InMINDD project focusing on midlife interventions to deter dementia. Her involvement also spans the EU Horizon 2020 funded project 'selfBACK', which aims to develop a smartphone application for self-management of low back pain.