Katherine Parkin
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Analyst, healthy life mission
Katherine is an analyst with the healthy life team, working on projects to increase the number of healthy years lived by the UK population.
Alongside working at Nesta, Katherine is also finishing her PhD in Public Health, at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD focuses on measuring adverse childhood experiences using routinely-collected linked data, and early intervention to help young people’s mental health outcomes.
Prior to this, Katherine worked as an assistant psychologist in an NHS community mental health team, delivering and evaluating psychological interventions, and also as a psychological wellbeing telecoach for a mental health crisis service.
Katherine completed an undergraduate degree in psychological and behavioural sciences at the University of Cambridge in 2016.
Outside of work, she likes trying out new activities, including badminton, bouldering and Australian football, as well as reading and dabbling in some drawing.
