Karin graduated from UCL in 2005 with a BA Hons degree in Geography. She took a gap year in 2006, during which she travelled to southern China to teach English in a secondary school in Guangdong province. In September 2007 she completed a Master’s degree in Landscape and Culture from the University of Nottingham, before joining the team at Adamson and Partners as a Research Associate in 2007 in the UK Intellectual Property division.