Career
She was awarded young Information Technology practitioner of the year by the British Computer Society (British Computer Society) in 2004, for work she carried out whilst on placement at National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She is now on the staff of the University of Dundee. She is a women in computing activist, who served as chair of BCSWomen from 2008-2011, and organised many events for women in computing during this period. Karen is responsible for an argument about sexist behaviour in gender-imbalanced groups called "The Petrie Multiplier" which states that with a gender ratio of 1:r, women will receive r2 times as many sexist remarks as mentor
Proving tight upper and lower bounds remains an open question.