Kate Mooney
Research Fellow (Assistant Professor)
Profile
Biography
Kate is a Research Fellow (Assistant Professor) in Epidemiology and Evaluation Methods. Kate works in the Family Wellbeing team within the Public Health and Society Research Group, and in partnership with the Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub (BSBIH) based at the Bradford Institute for Health Research. The BSBIH conduct research on interventions that are delivered to families with children aged 0–4 years in three areas of Bradford using the Born in Bradford’s Better Start (BiBBS) cohort. Kate leads on several quantitative evaluations of these interventions, and on quantitative studies delivered through the Best Start topic of the Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration. Her work explores the use of different measures of parenting and child development, and investigates the mechanisms behind inequalities in children’s outcomes.
Kate completed her PhD in the department in 2021, which investigated socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in children’s working memory development in the Born in Bradford cohort study. Kate has a background in Psychology, with an MSc in Child Development and an MA in Social Research. Kate has also worked as a Research Assistant for the Born in Bradford study, and as a Trial Support Officer for the E-SEE trial.
Qualifications
- PhD – Department of Health Sciences, University of York
- MSc Development, Disorders and Clinical Practice, Psychology, University of York
- MA Social Research, University of York
- BSc (Industrial) Psychology, University of Leeds
Departmental roles
- October 2022 – Present: Member of the Contract Researchers' Forum
- July 2022: Co-organiser of the first Department of Health Sciences ‘Research Showcase’
