Hi.
My name is Kate.
I currently work at the Cowen Institute at Tulane University. My days are filled with research, writing, design, data visualization, and data work.
I also run a module on Qualitative Research Methods for Harvard University’s Strategic Data Project program. From 2017-2019, I was a Cohort 9 Fellow with there, too. My mixed-methods research capstone project focused on persistence among first-generation college students.
Thus far my design skills have been self-taught so I recently enrolled in Tulane’s Digital Design program to see if there was a better way to do things. Turns out I have a lot to learn.
I also work as a freelancer and I love to help academics, students, school districts, and non-profits with data analysis, survey design, data visualization, writing, report layout, and design.
My PhD in Social Policy and my MSc in Applied Social Research are from Trinity College Dublin.
In Dublin, I worked as a researcher at Coolmine Therapeutic Community, where I contributed to, and authored, a mixed-methods, longitudinal study of service users at the drug and alcohol treatment centre.
I also worked as a researcher and an adjunct lecturer at Trinity College in the School of Social Work and Social Policy where I taught Qualitative Research Methods and Intro to Social Policy.
From 2014-2016, I did my postdoc at the Dublin Institute of Technology, where I published academic studies on young people’s use of e-cigarettes, and other substances (among other things).
You can find my full CV here.
I live & love in New Orleans.