Her main interests focus on community-based resource management and equity in the context of ecosystem services.
Kate has 30 years’ experience of research and policy advice in the developing world, including fieldwork in Africa, Asia and Latin America, mostly on multi-disciplinary and multi-country collaborative research projects. She is an experienced project manager.
In the past 20 years, she has been involved as a principle investigator or co-investigator on research projects worth over £9 million, with funding from a range of UK and international sources. Kate serves as a trustee of the International Tree Foundation.
Research
Forests and livelihoods, including collaborative forest management and commercialisation of non-timber forest products
Agroforestry and domestication of indigenous fruit trees
Conservation policy, with a focus on equity and justice
Ecosystem services and human wellbeing
Kate is an interdisciplinary researcher with a special interest in natural resource governance and the institutional arrangements that deliver equitable and just development. The common thread linking her varied research portfolio is a focus on how nature contributes to human wellbeing.
She works predominantly with mixed methods, including participatory research techniques, value chain approaches, household surveys and natural resource inventories.