Katie is a Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) Griffith Edwards Academic Fellow and Research Associate working on projects relating to nicotine and tobacco product perceptions and use, with a focus on youth and young adults. Katie’s Fellowship is based within KCL’s Nicotine Research Group (NRG) but also involves collaborations with KCL’s Department of Biostatistics and Heath Informatics, University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health Sciences (Canada), and University of Bristol’s MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU).

Katie joined the NRG in 2015, after completing her MSc at University College London, and completed her PhD on social norms towards smoking and vaping with the NRG in 2019. From 2020 to 2021, Katie worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Health & Health Systems, University of Waterloo, in Canada.

Katie co-leads the England arm of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project (http://www.itcproject.org/) and is Operations Coordinator for the international Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Policy Research Network.

Katie also has an interest in open science and statistical methods. She was co-ordinator of the IoPPN’s Volunteer Electronic Helpdesk on Research Methods and Statistics from 2017-2019 and is now involved in ReproducibiliTea, a journal club initiative allowing for discussions about reproducibility and improving science. She founded and led the ReproducibiliTea journal club at The University of Waterloo.

Research Interests

• Harm perceptions of vaping, smoking, and other nicotine products (e.g., IQOS)
• The impact of vaping policies on vaping behaviours and perceptions (e.g., health warning labels, age of sale)
• Social norms towards vaping and smoking
• Trends in youth nicotine and tobacco product use
• Use of national and international survey data (e.g., Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey (CTNS), International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project)
• Retail/market scans

 

Research Groups

• Nicotine Research Group
• Department of Addictions
• School of Public Health & Health Systems, University of Waterloo (Canada)
• Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT, US)
• Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA, UK)

Teaching

• Risk factors for addiction