Dr Cate Goodlad

Dr Cate Goodlad completed her PhD in Education at the University of Sheffield in 2011, focussing on the discourses of Access students moving into higher education. This study drew extensively on the work of the philosopher Michel Foucault and Discourses. 

Cate’s role at IMPact is as a Project Officer, helping to facilitate Networks.

She has previously worked in a wide variety of roles including teaching in both further and higher education, and in the 3rd sector, including Social Prescribing. 

She is an experienced qualitative researcher and has worked on a number of projects at the University of Sheffield. These include Doing Care Differently with Dr Diane Burns, the ESRC Sustainable Care project looking at Delivering Care at Home (with Dr Diane Burns and Professor Kate Hamblin), and with Professor Rachael Finn in the Management School looking at the Retention of Mental Health Staff in the NHS.