Kate Morley
Katherine Morley is a Senior Research Leader and Deputy Director of the Health and Wellbeing research group at RAND Europe. Prior to joining RAND in 2019, Kate spent over 15 years conducting health and medical research in the academic sector in both Australia and the United Kingdom, most recently as a member of faculty at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Her areas of research are the intersection between healthcare and non-health sectors (e.g. the criminal justice system, transport infrastructure), and how complex interventions can be evaluated through the analysis of pre-existing administrative data. She is currently joint-Principal Investigator for two large-scale evaluations: the Wellbeing Impact Study of High-Speed 2, a 10-year study of the impact of the HS2 rail development on the mental health and wellbeing of surrounding communities (NIHR132761), and the evaluation of the 10-year Drug Strategy investment in the treatment and recovery system in England (NIHR205228).