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Kate Morton
Research Fellow

Biography

Kate Morton is a Health Psychologist and Research Fellow based in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Kate supports the Best Start topic of the Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration, and is involved in several projects aimed at improving the mental and physical health of parents and families. These include exploring the benefits of nature-based interventions for parents and caregivers, evaluating interventions to support parents/caregivers to develop relationships with their baby and build parenting skills, evaluating the appropriateness of measures used in healthcare systems for families, and developing logic models to understand how interventions lead to impacts.

Kate also coordinates the Best Start Shaping Family Wellbeing group, a group of 23 parents and caregivers in Hull who work closely with us across our research projects, and works closely with research partners from the Bradford Institute for Health, the University of Huddersfield, NHS trusts, and community organisations.

Kate’s specialist research interests include:

  • Promoting and supporting inclusive patient and public involvement and engagement in research
  • Using creative involvement approaches to facilitate co-production of research with public contributors
  • Addressing health inequalities
  • Using qualitative and mixed-methods to explore the development, optimisation and implementation of healthcare interventions

Before joining the University of York, Kate worked in the Psychology and Health Sciences departments at the University of Southampton where she built specialist knowledge in using the person-based approach to develop and evaluate interventions, and improving accessibility of interventions via diverse public engagement. Kate also completed her PhD at the University of Southampton exploring the development and evaluation of a digital self-management intervention for people with high blood pressure.

Qualifications

  • PhD Health Psychology - University of Southampton
  • Stage 2 Health Psychology - University of Southampton
  • BSc Psychology (hons), University of York
  • MSc Health Psychology - University of Southampton

Kate Morton

Contact details

Dr Kate Morton
Research Fellow

Tel: 01904 32 8089. Extension: 32 8089