After completing her PhD, Standring worked as a neuroscientist, publishing over 150 articles relating to her research on repair of the peripheral nervous system. Standring previously served as president of the Peripheral Nerve Society and the
Anatomical Society. Standring still holds this position today and has moved the text forward, introducing new online editions and incorporating interactive and motion-based graphic to further demonstrate and aid in teaching of the complexity of many structure processes. During her career as an anatomist, Standring has spent over 40 years teaching anatomy to medical and dental students. Standring also served as an admissions tutor for Medicine for seven years at
UMDS and
King's College London (King's), helping to develop the Access to Medicine Programme at King's, which aims to expand access to healthcare professions for students studying at less selective
state schools in the
Greater London area or who participate in the Realising Opportunities programme of England. Through this work, she later served as an advisor in the development of similar programmes at the universities of
Bradford and
Southampton. In addition to her work as editor-in-chief of Gray's Anatomy, she continues to write on applied anatomical topics and on the histories of
topographical anatomy and of
peripheral nerve repair. Standring currently acts as an external examiner of anatomy to several medical schools in the UK and is a trustee of the
Hunterian Collection at the
Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England), and previously presided on the Council of the
Hunterian Society. Standring is also an honorary fellow of RCS England and has been a trustee of the Damiliola Taylor Trust and of Changing Faces. ==Research==