Kate is a lecturer in social science in the Population Health Sciences Institute. Her core discipline is sociology and she is broadly interested social inequalities. She utilises a range of approaches and methods to explore people’s everyday experiences of care, ageing, health and wellbeing. She has a particular interest in ethnographic methods and using Bourdieusian social theory as lens to explore the relationship between care, ageing and inequalities.

Kate uses a range of qualitative methods. These include ethnography, photo/object elicitation, life history interviews, ‘Go-alongs’ and focus groups. Kate is involved in a range of applied health research, working with interdisciplinary teams. She has researched on the topics of ageing in place, classed food dispositions, social and health inequalities, and social prescribing. Her current and long-term interests are in the health and wellbeing of older people, in particular, those who are affected by dementia, care, ageing in place, and addressing health and social inequalities.