Katy is a Senior Research Fellow and project lead for ‘BiB: Primary School Years’. She is also Programme Manager for the Centre for Applied Education Research (www.CAERBradford.org). Katy’s research focuses on supporting schools to identify children with difficulties, developing interventions and supporting schools to integrate research into practice. Katy has a background in Psychology, completing her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2016, in partnership with the Bradford Institute of Health Research. This focused on identifying and supporting children with movement/handwriting difficulties, within primary schools in Bradford. She is also the theme manager for the CLAHRC YH Healthy Children Healthy Families (HCHF) theme, and works on the Digital BiB project, looking at how smartphone apps can be used to recruit people to studies and collect research data.