Lecturer and DCAL Deputy Director

Kate is a psycholinguist and deputy director of the UCL Deafness, Cognition & Language Research Centre. Deaf herself and raised in a deaf family in Cornwall, she studied Deaf Studies at Bristol and Linguistics at UCL. She later completed a doctorate on deaf people’s reading and is now a Lecturer in Deafness, Cognition & Language at UCL, specialising in language and literacy development in deaf children.

Kate advocates for bilingual education and has developed training for professionals in deaf education, mental health, and audiology. She has led and collaborated on ESRC research projects on deaf children’s language and literacy. Actively engaged with deaf schools, she provides training on sign language and literacy development and serves as a governor for Hamilton Lodge.