Kathryn has extensive expertise in mixed-methods evaluation and in designing and leading complex randomised controlled trials, including multi-site efficacy and feasibility RCTs with embedded implementation and process evaluation. Her wider methodological expertise includes theory-based evaluation, evaluation readiness, implementation research and theories of change.

Her recent work includes leading large-scale evaluations for What Works Centres across children’s services, domestic abuse and serious youth violence. She particularly enjoys working with smaller voluntary and community organisations that may be relatively new to formal evaluation, helping them move from a promising intervention to robust testing while building their evaluation capability and confidence. Co-design is central to this work, ensuring that rigorous research reflects the realities of frontline delivery and the experiences of the people involved.

Kathryn has also led research and evaluation across cancer care, dementia and wider health and social care. Across these areas, she has particular expertise in understanding how implementation, context and relationships influence outcomes, and in helping organisations use evidence to strengthen delivery and inform decisions about sustainability and scale-up.

Before joining Cordis Bright, Kathryn was a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Postgraduate Research at the University of Bradford, where she led and contributed to major applied health and social care research programmes, including the £2 million Alzheimer's Society funded NIDUS programme for people living with dementia and their families.

Kathryn holds a PhD from UCL’s Division of Psychiatry, focused on the development and testing of an intervention to support decision-making for people with dementia and their families.