Katie Wright-Bevans

I joined the School of Psychology as a lecturer in social and community psychology in October 2016, having previously worked part-time as a module assistant and seminar leader for the School.

I completed both my undergraduate degree (with foundation year) and PhD at Keele University. My PhD was supervised by Prof Michael Murray and Dr Alex Lamont and examined by Prof Catherine Campbell and Prof Judith Sixsmith.

Between completing my PhD and re-joining Keele University, I worked as a research associate at the University of Liverpool.

As a social and community psychologist, my research interests are broadly around health promotion, inclusion, justice and equality. My interests fall into 3 strands: 1) community-based and participant-led health promotion, 2) understanding processes of social change and 3) the health promotion of vulnerable or marginalised groups. I’m interested in theoretically-driven research utilising feminist and critical social psychological theories to both promote change and understand the processes involved in action.

I’m experienced in qualitative document analysis, interviews, focus groups, community arts and photovoice as well as survey and experimental methods. I’m particularly interested in innovative and creative qualitative research methods, including document and video analysis, community arts, world café, future workshops and photovoice.

I welcome contact from potential PhD students interested in health, wellbeing and inclusion across the life-course or with marginalised communities.