Kat is a PhD student investigating the impacts of climate change on the mental health of parents and carers.

Her interest in this subject stems from her previous work on fuel poverty, working directly with communities to deploy low carbon technologies and retrofit measures at scale, including heat networks and digital tools for equitable access to energy.

Kat has spent over twenty years working with people from diverse and marginalised communities in the healthcare, voluntary, and housing sectors.

She diversified to work in the energy and climate change arena in 2022, graduating from the Open University with a BSc in psychology with counselling – where her passion for psychology intersected with climate mitigation, fuel poverty, and policy.

Kat’s supervisors are Professor Gesche Huebner, Dr Lewis Elliott, and Dr Leanne Martin.