Katherine graduated from the University of Leeds in 1998 with a PhD in Biological Psychology / Nutrition and has since worked as a Research Fellow at the Universities of Leeds, Surrey and Bristol, and as a lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast. She joined Bournemouth University in Sept. 2012, and was promoted to Professor in 2015. Her research interests are based in human eating behaviour, with particular focus on the optimisation of human health and well-being in the normal population. She is a Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society, 2001) and a Registered Nutritionist (Nutrition Society, 2001).