Kate Chatfield - Academic Staff

Kate's work is focused primarily upon matters of research ethics and ways to enhance ethical standards in research. This includes participation in research projects with a focus upon ethics, developing and delivering research ethics and integrity training, publishing on ethics matters and undertaking ethics reviews for EU projects. Kate is the Chair of the University HEALTH Ethics Review Panel and the Editor in Chief for the academic journal Research Ethics. Kate also acts as supervisor and mentor for postgraduate students and staff for a range of activities (e.g. research ethics, questionnaire development, interviews, and Delphi studies).

Formerly a Senior Lecturer at UCLan for 15 years, Kate was at the forefront of university developments in e-learning, creating innovative postgraduate courses that enabled communal learning for groups of students from all over the world. This work included the writing and development of cross-disciplinary modules in research methods, research ethics and critical thinking that had transnational applicability. Since moving into the Centre for Professional Ethics, Kate has devoted more time to research including EU-funded projects TRUST and Responsible Research and Innovation. Kate was the deputy lead for the TRUST project which developed a new Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings. This code was subsequently adopted by the European Commission and is now applied in projects all over the world. Kate has also continued to develop online training materials in research ethics, most recently co-authoring two courses for Epigeum, Oxford University Press.

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Dr Kate Chatfield

Dr Kate Chatfield

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