Close

Professor Kathryn Oliver

Professor
of Evidence and Policy

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

Tel.
x2232

I studied Molecular Biology at UCL (2003). Via a MSc in History of Science, Technology and Medicine (2004), I became interested in broader questions about how scientific knowledge and expertise are constructed, owned and used. My PhD (Manchester, 2012) was half sociology, half public health, exploring social networks of power, influence and evidence-use in public health policymaking.

After postdoctoral positions in Manchester Sociology and Manchester Business School, I held lectureships at UCL and Oxford. I joined LSHTM in December 2017.

 

Affiliations

Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Department of Health Services Research and Policy

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Teaching

Departmental Research Degrees Coordinator (DRDC) for PHES

Module Organiser for Health Policy, Process and Power (MPH)

Lecturer on Evidence Based Public Health Policy and Practice (DPH)

Research

I am  a social scientist with interests in 

  • use of evidence in policymaking, especially public health policy
  • the structure and function of networks in policy and practice
  • evaluation of social interventions and policies, particularly adverse effects
  • Research impact and science policy

I am the lead for the Evidence Synthesis theme for the Centre for Evaluation and have an interest in how evidence synthesis methods have evolved over the last 30 years. 

Available to supervise PhD students with interests in

  • public health policy
  • evidence use and research impact, from theoretical, empirical or methodological perspectives
  • coproduction and collaborative research processes and outcomes
  • unintended consequences of public health policies and interventions
  • Policy mechanisms and evaluation

Please get in touch!

Research Area
Health policy
Public health
Research : policy relationship
Science policy
Evaluation
Evidence use
Impact evaluation
Implementation research
Public understanding
Discipline
Policy analysis
Political science
Sociology
Social Sciences
Social Policy
See more Publications