Kate is a Research Associate in the Family Wellbeing team within the Public Health and Society Research Group, and she works 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 targeted towards families with children aged 0–4 years in three areas of Bradford. Kate
leads on the quantitative evaluations of two of these interventions – the Baby Steps and Incredible Years parenting programmes. Kate also supports on several quantitative studies delivered through the Best Start topic of the Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration. This work explores the use of different measures of parenting and child development and investigates the mechanisms
behind inequalities in children’s outcomes.
Before her Research Associate position, Kate completed her PhD in the department, 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.
Broadly, Kate is interested in investigating and reducing social inequalities in children’s development. She has a particular interest in children’s cognitive development, social and emotional development, and educational outcomes.
Kate has experience in using analytic methods such as regression, structural equation modelling, item response theory, multilevel modelling, and exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis. Kate applies causal inference techniques to her analysis and works with large datasets from longitudinal cohort studies.