Currently, Katie is completing a three year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Strategy and Entrepreneurship cluster of The University of Queensland's Business School, looking at the role of reinsurance pools in alleviating the damage caused by natural disasters. Katie teaches Corporate Sustainability within The University of Queensland's Business School and is a member of the Business Sustainability Initiative. Katie completed her PhD in environmental communication at The University of Queensland Business School in 2020. Her study of public participation in environmental decision-making explains how participants, both individuals and groups, experience public participation processes in different ways depending on their access to resources. Preceding her PhD, Katie worked in public relations.