Dr Katy Goldstraw

Senior Lecturer

School of Health, Science and Wellbeing

Dr Katy Goldstraw is a senior lecturer in Health and Social Care. Katy teaches on the Level 4 Introduction to Context of Health and Social Care, L4 Introduction to Safeguarding and Level 5 Public Health Courses.

Katy is passionate about supporting students using creative and participatory approaches to learning.

Her PhD used participatory research methods to consider voluntary sector responses to austerity. She has worked in Higher Education and the Voluntary Sector throughout her career; writing on VCS assets, citizens voice, and anti-poverty participatory approaches. She has a particular research interest in using participatory arts-based research methods to include and empower the voices of previously unheard communities within her research.

Professional memberships and activities

FHEA

FRSA

Academic qualifications

BA (Hons)

MSc

Pgchpe

PhD

Expertise

Katy specialises in participatory anti-poverty research approaches.

Research interests

Katy specialises in participatory anti-poverty research approaches.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Level 4 Introduction to Health and Social Care
L4 Introduction to Safeguarding
Level 5 Public Health

Postgraduate supervision

Master dissertations in the Health and social care and Social Welfare field.
PhD’s the Health and social care and Social Welfare field.

Publications

Goldstraw, K. and Beeput, A,. (2022) Participatory Approaches to Building Knowledge in L. Tilly, (Ed). Understanding Health and Social Care Research: Methods in Context. Routledge

Goldstraw, K. Herrington, T., Croft, T,. Skelton, D., Murrinas, D and Gratton, N. (2021) Socially Distanced Activism: Voices of Lived Experience of Poverty During COVID-19. Policy Press.

Goldstraw, K,. Diamond,J,. Chiocot, H,. Broome,.D (2021) Lifelong Learning in Rochdale: Building Sustainable Community Voices Journal of Lifelong Learning and Community Participation

Goldstraw, K,. Macmillan, A,. Mort, H,. Pahl, K., Pool, S., Rafiq, Z., Rasool, Z (2020) Co-Producing Artistic Approaches to Social Cohesion Research for All

Goldstraw, K (2018) Using Creativity to envision a Good Society Local Economy Nov 2018

Goldstraw, K (2018) Editorial for Local Economy Special Issue on a Good Society. Local Economy Nov 2018

Goldstraw, K., Davidson,E., Packham,C. (2017) Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis as a response to the crisis in the Community and Voluntary Sector Illness Crisis and Loss

Kagan, C. Lawthom, O, Clennon, O. Fisher, J. Diamond, J. Goldstraw, K (2016) Sustainable Communities: University-Community Partnership Research on Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development Springer

katy.goldstraw@staffs.ac.uk