Professional summary
Kate is a social scientist and interdisciplinary researcher with a background in health science. Her research focuses on the interaction of humans and the environment, in particular relating to health and well-being. She is a qualitative researcher with 20 years’ experience of the successful delivery of multi-partner health and social sciences research programmes. Kate’s primary expertise is in theory-led implementation development and process evaluation of complex interventions, NHS ethics and governance procedures. One dimension of Kate’s work is in understanding how implementation science can improve the adoption of sustainable technologies and interventions.
She is interested in the role of social science in addressing current environmental science issues and in the integration of stakeholder perspectives into health and environmental decision making. Kate is keen to develop research driven by communities, non-scientists, and not-for-profit organisations, working with people with lived experience of the impact of climate change on health and well-being.