Kate Morris

Based at the Irish Universities Association, Kate’s role is to manage and drive the Campus Engage Initiative, to support on-going development of activities such as: community-based learning, community engaged research and knowledge exchange; to increase the number of courses, activities and levels of participation in these areas across Irish higher education. Previous to joining the IUA Kate worked with the Centre for Effective Services, managing the Centre´s knowledge exchange network delivering a range of capacity building tools to support and promote evidence-informed community, and youth work services, practice and policy. Kate has also worked on consultancy and contract basis with UNESCO Centre, Northern Ireland, the Centre for Ageing Research and Development. At EU level Kate has worked on a number of EU Commission Projects including FP6 research projects, based at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies, that studied young people’s experience of participation, education and transitioning to employment