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Kate is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at Queen Mary. Prior to this, Kate was a Senior Lecturer at the University of York, where she worked from 2017-2023. Kate has also been a sessional lecturer in both Criminal Justice and Theatre Studies at Birkbeck, University of London as well as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at LSE Law and University of Sydney.
Kate holds a doctorate in law from the LSE on the oral history life stories of litigants in person in the civil justice system (her monograph on this topic was published by Hart in 2024).
Kate also holds a doctorate in theatre and performance studies (USYD) and her work draws on methods from both disciplines. Kate’s first PhD researched the role of performance in the adversarial criminal trial. In 2023 she presented on the Theatre of the Trial at the All Souls Seminar Series, University of Oxford and on Law and Performance for a podcast from the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. She is currently researching the role of ‘liveness’ in legal proceedings in the face of the increased use of technology.