Kathryn is a social scientist, interested in how we make, mobilise and use evidence in policy and practice. With Annette Boaz, she co-directs the research collaboration Transforming Evidence, which brings together funders, decision-makers, practitioners and researchers from a range of disciplines and sectors. They aim to both do research on evidence production and use, and to ensure that the research is used.
Between 2019-2024 Kathryn worked as a Fellow in the UK Government Office for Science, exploring how evidence knowledge needs are articulated and acted on by central government. Other bits of work include evaluation of various academic-policy engagement initiatives, working with funders and decision-makers in the UK, EU (especially the WHO and the EC’s Joint Research Centre) and USA (OBR) to understand science-policy systems, and developing the field of evidence studies. She also have a long-standing interest in the evaluation of unintended effects of policies and practices.
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