Rate My Professor Jody Winter

She leads the Microbiology subject group within the Department of Biosciences, the Biosciences Outreach group and the interdisciplinary antimicrobial resistance research cluster at the university. Her research focuses on the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, infection prevention, One Health principles and antimicrobial stewardship. Winter teaches on the BSc (Hons) Microbiology, BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences and BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences courses and leads the One Health module for final-year Biological Sciences students. She collaborates with Makerere University and healthcare professionals in Uganda and the UK on antimicrobial resistance and stewardship, and works with the Environment Agency on resistant bacteria in Nottinghamshire rivers. Winter is a member of the Impact and Influence Committee of the Microbiology Society and belongs to the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. She investigates creative teaching methods in microbiology, including agar art, pipetting competitions and a custom board game on antimicrobial drug development.