About Kate
About Kate
PhD, Population Health, The University of Queensland (2012)
Grad Cert (Arts), Writing, Editing and Publishing, The University of Queensland (2010)
B Science, Australian National University (1998)
I have been copy-editing and proofreading academic papers, grant and fellowship applications, and theses for over a decade.
I have authored or co-authored around 50 peer-reviewed publications. I have also written extensively for non-academic audiences in the The Conversation and blogs. Beyond research, I have several published essays and short stories and, in 2018, won the Darebin Mayor’s Writing Award.
My PhD thesis, about the health experiences of young people leaving prison, passed without corrections. As an academic, I researched the health-related needs of vulnerable population groups, including people with intellectual disability. In my first two years as a postdoc, I was awarded over $50k in competitive grant funding. I have taught into undergraduate and postgraduate public health courses for more than a decade. I left academia at the end of 2019 to focus on editing and writing.