Kat is currently undertaking an NIHR funded PhD Studentship in Applied Health, at the University of Kent in their Centre for Health Services Studies.

She has previously worked as a research assistant on the ‘Community-based volunteering in response to COVID-19’ (COV-VOL) study with the University of Kent and as PCIE lead on the follow-on Community and Voluntary organisation Evaluation Toolkit (CAVEAT) study. She also worked on the PRODEMOS research study (the Prevention of Dementia using mobile phone applications) with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS).

Kat has worked as a health coach for the SPICES research study (Scaling-up Packages of Interventions for Cardiovascular disease prevention in selected sites in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa) for BSMS. The SPICES model developed and was adapted to sit in the primary care setting and Kat was one of the team members leading this work, known as Healthy Hearts Sussex, with a small team at a GP surgery in Brighton.

Kat has recently worked for the Applied Research Collaboration, Kent, Surrey and Sussex in their involvement and engagement team, working with nearly 50 public members, encouraging researchers to actively involve the public in health and social care research that is happening locally.

Kat is a Non-Executive Director for Wellsbourne Healthcare Community Interest Company, an innovative GP surgery based in East Brighton and sits on the Oversight Group for NHS England South East’s Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) training and mentoring programme.