Dr Kate Smith

Kate's research interests span a wide range of interdisciplinary topics in cultural anthropology and sociohydrology, but centre around the interactions between water, people, landscape and identity, and in participatory methodologies, thematic analysis and evaluation research.

Her work within the Energy and Environment Institute has included nationally significant research on using mobile technologies for flood warnings, using social value as a way of evaluating flood resilience innovation, and understanding the impact of large-scale public art interventions on people’s engagement with action for climate empowerment. She is a Co-Investigator within the Coast-R Network, leading on evaluation and monitoring.

Kate gained her PhD at the former National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, within the School of English at the University of Sheffield. She has taught at Sheffield and the Open Universities, as well as at Hull York Medical School and within the Faculties of Science and Arts, Culture and Education at the University of Hull.

She is also a member of the Folklore Society's council, has been a judge for the Katherine Briggs book prize, and co-wrote the Society's ethics position statement.