Karen Stansfield

Biography

Professor Karen Stansfield is a nurse and health visitor with extensive senior management, strategic leadership and quality assurance experience in the health, social care and justice sector. Karen was Dean in the Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford and joint Senior Responsible Office for Bradford District and Craven. Prior to that Karen was Associate Dean, Enterprise and Engagement, in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford and Director of the Health and Social Care Academy in Salford Professional Development.

Before joining the University of Salford Karen held a national role as Head of Education and Quality at the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV).

Karen has worked in industry, with Mott MacDonald, as Deputy Director of Reviews for the Nursing and Midwifery Council Quality Assurance framework. She previously worked as Head of Nursing, Radiography and Health Care Practice at the University of Derby and Head of Nursing and Midwifery at Sheffield Hallam University.

Karen has extensive experience in undertaking curriculum development and has led on apprenticeships, enterprise, knowledge exchange and international and business development in the areas of health, social care and policing.

Karen completed a doctorate in business administration and developed a leadership development model that was adopted by the iHV. She invented the Leadership educational game and commercialised this with Focus Games and the iHV. She is actively involved in research in leadership and publishes in this area.