Early Career
Before she entered Parliament, Starkey's career was in biomedical research. Her early work with Alan Barrett at the University of Cambridge was in the field of biochemistry, and included formulating the trap hypothesis of peptidase inhibition. From 1974–81, she was at the Strangeways Laboratory in Cambridge. She later headed a group at the University of Oxford researching problems of pregnancy. She was at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford from 1981–84. She lectured in Obstetrics at the University of Oxford and was a Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford from 1984–93.
Subsequently she worked as an expert in science and technology policy and bioethics for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council from 1993–97. She was a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1997–98.
Starkey joined the Labour Party in 1974 and became a councillor on Oxford City Council in 1983. She held various positions on the council, including that of Leader of the Council (1990–93) and Chair of the Finance Committee (1988–90 and 1993–96).
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