Role
Dr Claire Hawkes is Course Leader for MSc Biomedical Science and a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences teaching on a range of courses including BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, BSc Applied Biomedical Science (Apprenticeship) and MSc Biomedical Science.
Claire specialises in Cellular Pathology and is Module Leader for both the BSc and MSc Cellular Pathology Modules as well as the Leadership Module for the MSc Flexible Distance Learning course. She contributes to the BSc Biomedical Science in Practice and Professional Practice modules due to her wealth of experience working in the NHS as an HCPC-Registered Biomedical Scientist. She also teaches on a range of other modules including Chemotherapy of Cancers and Infections.
Career overview
Dr Hawkes began teaching at NTU as an HPL in October 2018, joining NTU as a full-time Senior Lecturer in June 2019 and MSc Biomedical Science Course Leader from Sept 2021.
Prior to this, Claire worked as a Biomedical Scientist in the NHS for over 24 years; her most recent role (2009-2019) was as Senior Biomedical Scientist, Team Leader in Immunohistochemistry, with the Dept of Cellular Pathology at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.
She has also worked as a Chief Research Biomedical Scientist in Breast Cancer Research at NUH (1999-2009), during which time she completed a part-time PhD in the field of breast cancer metastasis at Nottingham University.
Claire retains strong links with local hospitals and laboratories which provides continued professional insight into supporting students within Biosciences.
Research areas
Dr Hawkes has a research interests in the field of breast cancer with particular focus on breast cancer metastasis and metastatic growth patterns. She has also developed recent scholarly research interests in Generative AI.
External activity
Dr Hawkes is an HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist, Chartered Scientist and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Biomedical Science.
She is an IBMS Registration Portfolio Verifier and Specialist Portfolio Examiner.
She was elected as a parent Governor at her local primary school and has represented the Governing body for the past 6 years; recently being appointed as Chair of Governors in Autumn 2019.
Publications
(2009) Paish EC, Green AR, Rakha EA, Macmillan RD, Maddison JR and Ellis IO. Three-dimensional reconstruction of sentinel lymph nodes with metastatic breast cancer indicates three distinct patterns of tumour growth. J Clin Pathol, 62(7):617-23