Katharine is a Senior Consultant and leads Arup’s occupier experience work in the Building Performance & Systems Practice team. She is a planning and development surveyor by background, and a mixed methods researcher, with over 15 years of experience.

Applying her Engineering Doctorate research skills to Arup University research and development, she is a passionate advocate of using inclusive design approaches and data visualisation to shape innovative ideas. Her focus is taking these ideas and transforming them into habits, strategies and practices that enable innovation and change. Some examples include UK construction workplace poverty report, lighting and occupancy performance gap paper, and CIBSE Lighting Research & Technology paper - user experiences of lighting controls.

Prior to Arup, she worked with the National Oceanography Centre as a Major Project Delivery Lead and completed her industry focussed Engineering Doctorate embedded in the University of Reading’s Energy Team to reduce their carbon emissions by 35%.

Kate enjoys managing multidisciplinary projects and teams, and engaging different stakeholders in decision-making and planning, in particular the most vulnerable and excluded groups. In 2021/22 she won the Harold Samuel Research Prize to understand the links between mental health, financial security and job security.

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