Kate is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Kate co-leads the Public Health and Wellbeing Research and Innovation Group held within the Centre for Health Activity and Wellbeing Research (CAWR) and is co-institutional lead for a collaboration held with EuroHealthNet (a European public health network) in the School of Sport and Health Sciences. She leads and collaborates on research projects that explore factors which affect population wellbeing and health protective and preventative behaviours. Particularly she has worked on projects which explore the role of nature, social cohesion and leisure activities in promoting mental health, physical health and wellbeing. She is the current co-lead for the Save a Life Cymru Pracademic Hub, using behavioural and social science methods to improve lifesaving behaviours in the community. She has particular expertise in using mixed methods to explore these questions. Her research uses a range of methods and theories, including COM-B, Theoretical Domains Framework, reflective thematic analysis and quantitative methods. She has worked both nationally and internationally with a variety of organisations, such as Public Health Wales, Welsh Government, Local Health Boards, the World Health Organization and charities.  

Kate is responsible for teaching on the MSc Applied Public Health and BSc Environmental Health. Prior to this role, Kate was a Senior Researcher at Public Health Wales, leading national research and evaluation projects, aligned with Public Health Wales’s strategic objectives.