With a background in Human Psychology and Adult Nursing, Kathryn King's research career began within the largest study comparing prostate cancer treatments. Inspired by this project, Kathryn moved to London to train to be a nurse, introduced to more clinical practice, specifically HIV care where she worked as a qualified adult nurse thereafter.

Kathryn’s career soon returned to research, covering Urology, Oncology and HIV and more specifically medication adherence. In 2022, she was awarded a prestigious NIHR doctoral fellowship to support people living with IBD with adherence issues, most recently publishing a Scoping review “What Do We Know about Medication Adherence Interventions in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Scoping review of RCTs” and is in process of completing her next publication; “Factors associated with Medication Non-adherence in IBD Patients: A Systematic Review.”

Research Interests:

• Adult Nursing
• Medication Adherence
• Health Psychology
• Behaviour change
• HIV
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Uro-oncology
• Translational research