DEMOS

In 2000, Kate authored  'The Independents' with Charlie Leadbeater, a groundbreaking study of Britain’s ‘cultural entrepreneurs’ and Surfing the Long Wave, a look at networks in the UK’s knowledge economy. More recently, she was the prime author of the "Creative London" Report, and has worked with a number of cities and regions on public policy in the creative industries.

In addition to being along time Associate of Demos, Kate is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an associate of Burns Owens Partnership (BOP) a leading consultancy on cultural and creative industries. She is a member of the Advisory Group for IPPR’s Intellectual Property and the Public Sphere Project and a member of FOCI (Forum on Creative Industries). She is on the editorial board of Games and Culture, a journal about interactive media, published by Sage.

Kate is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology. She previously held research and consulting posts with the Policy Studies Institute and Manchester Business School, where she had a Fellowship in the Knowledge Industries.