Kate’s previous employment includes extensive HR, management and leadership roles across both the private and public sector. For example, managing a training organisation, career counselling, HR professional and training manager. In addition she has run her own business as an HR Consultant for local SMEs.

Having worked for UWBS as a Senior Lecturer since 2000, Kate has over 10 years' experience in managing PG academic programmes, quality enhancement, developing new PG initiatives including validation, recruiting students and fulfilling vital school roles such as Student Liaison Officer and Equality & Diversity Coordinator. She has also been active in university research projects such as Equality in the Curriculum and Student Support Activities as well as acting as an External Examiner for APU. In addition Kate has organised training programmes for local and international businesses on behalf of the Business School.

Her research and scholarship interests are international HR, equality and diversity and organisational behaviour. In addition she has contributed to research and scholarly activities through 2 university wide projects looking at equality and diversity in the curriculum. She has completed 2 years of a Doctorate at Birkbeck College (UCL) in Occupational Psychology and  is enthusiastic about research and scholarship.

• Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• BPS Level A Psychological Tester
• BUIRA Member
• Member of HEA

• MA HRM, University Of Wolverhampton
• PGCE in Higher Education, University of Wolverhampton
• Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (National Exams)
• British Psychological Society (Level A)
• C&G 9292 Staff Assessors Award P/T, Telford College of Arts & Technology
• Various C&G Trainers Awards, P/T, Telford College of Arts & Technology
• PG Diploma in Career Counselling (BAC), Trent Polytechnic
• B.Ed., University Of Hull

Teaching interests

Mainly Postgraduate teaching in areas of:

• Leadership and Management
• Organisational Behaviour
• Human Resource Management
• Work Psychology and Career Development
• Equality and Diversity in the Work Place
• International Human Resources
• Human Resource Development 

Corporate and community engagement

• International HR  workshops for Multi National Organisations
• Equality and Diversity Training for SMEs
• Executive training Programmes
• Member of Local Authority Adoption Panel
• School Governor