Katie Daubney
Katie is Research Partnerships Lead for ISEY as well as the Institute for Connected Communities (ICC) and the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at UEL.
This role focuses on facilitating collaboration between institutes at UEL and harnessing the varied expertise of researchers to best respond to the challenges faced by communities and society.
Katie’s own research has looked at how environmental sensitivity develops in the first years of life as part of an ESRC-funded doctoral training partnership between UEL and Birkbeck, University of London.
Previous research collaborations at ISEY include looking at audiovisual speech perception and learning in pre-schoolers, as well as investigating the relationship between physiological arousal, behavioural reactivity and neural responses in cohorts of infants and school-aged children.
As a lecturer, Katie has supervised student independent research projects from final year undergraduates to PhD students.
Before embarking on an academic career, Katie worked as an actor, teacher and journalist in France and the UK. She holds a BA joint-hons in French and English literature from Cardiff University, an MSc (distinction) in Psychology and an MSc (distinction) in Clinical and Community Psychology. She is trained in Video Interaction Guidance, a clinical intervention to promote attachment between children and carers.
