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Dr Megan De Ste Croix

Dr Megan De Ste Croix

Academic Professional Development Lead

Personal Profile

Megan is the Professional Development lead in the Education Academy, before joining Ð԰ɵç̨ she worked as an Academic Developer at the University of Staffordshire where she was the Programme lead for the Advance HE experiential Fellowship route (Professional Recognition scheme). Prior to this, she was an Educational Developer at Nottingham Trent University, where she specialised in course and curriculum design and active learning pedagogies. Megan has experience in Team Based Learning (TBL), Access and Participation (APP) and effective evaluation of student attainment projects.

Publications and outputs

Davison, C., Tallman, S., De Ste Croix, M., Antonio, M., Oggioni, MR., Kwambana-Adams, B., Freund, F., Beleza, S. Long-term evolution of Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus pneumoniae leads to higher genetic diversity within rather than between human populations, PLoS genetics. (2024).

Cuthbert, K., Bunting, K., De Ste Croix, M., Gough, K., Kennedy, E., Matic, J., & McCarter B. Top Trumps: The Nottingham Trent University Educational Development Edition, International Journal for Academic Development, (2022) DOI:10.1080/1360144X.2022.2126477

Zbinden, FR.*, De Ste Croix, M.*, Grandgirard, D., Haigh, RD., Vacca, I., Zamudio, R., Goodall ECA., Stephan, R., Oggioni, MR., Leib, SL. Pathogenic differences of type 1 restriction-modification allele variants in experimental Listeria monocytogenes meningitis. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. (2020). doi:10.3389/fcimb.2020.59065
*joint first authors

De Ste Croix, M., Holmes, J., Wanford, JJ., Moxon, ER., Oggioni, MR., Bayliss CD. Selective and Non-Selective Bottlenecks as Drivers of the Evolution of Hypermutable Bacterial Loci. Molecular Microbiology. (2020). doi:10.1111/mmi.14453

De Ste Croix, M., Chen, Y., Vacca, I., Manso, AS., Johnston, C., Polard, P., Kwun, MJ., Bentley, SD., Croucher, NJ., Haigh, RD., Bayliss, CD., and Oggioni, MR. Recombination of the Phase-Variable spnIII Locus Is Independent of All Known Pneumococcal Site-Specific Recombinases. (2019). doi: 10.1128/JB.00233-19

De Ste Croix M., Vacca I., Croucher N., Oggioni M.R. Phase variable methylation and epigenetic regulation by Type I restriction modification systems. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. (2017) doi: 10.1093/femsre/fux025.

Research Interests/Expertise

Active learning

Team Based Learning (TBL)

Course and Curriculum design

Advance HE Fellowship

Access and Participation

Areas of Teaching

Post Graduate Certificate in Empowering Education.

Qualifications

PhD Genetics, University of Leicester (2013-2017)

B.Sc. (Hons) Biology with Professional Placement (1st), University of Bath (2007-2011)

Honours and Awards

Best Newcomer Staffordshire University 2023

Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA) 2021