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Kate joined the University of Gloucestershire in 2021. She has a background in research, starting her career working on research projects at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre. Kate went on to complete her PhD in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, where she also discovered a passion for training and teaching. After this Kate spent a number of years working as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester.
Kate is passionate about providing a high-quality educational experience for students and has a particular interest in the use of technology enhanced learning strategies. She has conducted a number of research projects examining the impact of e-learning, blended learning, and student response systems to facilitate learning and promote student engagement.
Kate primarily teaches across BSc Psychology Undergraduate modules in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, and health psychology. She also teaches across the MSc in Health Psychology. Kate is the Course Leader for the level 6 BSc top up degree in Psychology, Health and Wellbeing.
Kate is interested in understanding why people experience psychological distress and the factors which maintain these difficulties. Her early work focussed on the role of intrusive imagery and safety-seeking behaviours in maintaining anxiety. She also explored the efficacy of cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness-based approaches for treating anxiety and depression. Kate is passionate about exploring ways to promote the effective implementation of evidence-based cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBT) within routine practice and has expertise in methods of assessing competence in the delivery of CBT.
More recently Kate’s work has examined the impact of stigma on individuals living with long term physical and mental health difficulties and supporting adjustment and adaptive coping in adolescents living with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. This body of work is a collaborative venture with the colleagues in Children’s Psychological Medicine at the Oxford Children’s Hospital and the UK Bipolar Disorder Research Network. Kate has also supervised PhD research exploring the experiences of UK Higher Education Institution staff members following a student death by suicide. This work has contributed to the development of suicide postvention guidelines within higher education.
Kate’s research has been disseminated across high impact peer-reviewed journals and at international research and practitioner conferences. Kate has been awarded funding from a range of sources including Crohn’s and Colitis UK (CCUK), Crohn’s in Childhood Research Association (CIRCA), the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre (OCTC), Green Templeton College, University of Worcester Vacation Research Assistantship Scheme, University of Worcester Institute of Health and Society Research Outputs Facilitation Fund, and the University of Worcester Learning and Teaching Funding Scheme.
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