Dr Kath Maguire

About me:

Kath is Assistant Director for Involvement and Engagement with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Public Health Environments Research Exeter (SPHERE). In SPHERE they lead on work on coproducing approaches to tackling health inequalities in rural and coastal areas and nationally they lead on public involvement to support the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) theme of Healthy Places, Helthy Planet. They are based in the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health, and support the Health and Environment Public Engagement (HEPE) group in the southwest. They completed their PhD in 2014 at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry with a theses entitled 'Public and Patient Involvement in Theory and in Practice'. This was supported by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, PenCLAHRC. Before undertaking that study Kath had been one of the founder members of the PenCLAHRC public and patient involvement group.

MA Cantab

MA Exon

PhD PCMD

As a former carer, Kath used that personal experience to inform lay roles with NIHR funding panels and the General Medical Council Reference Community. They were a member of the National Community Forum, which sat within the Department for Communities and Local Government, taking part in their panel on community involvement across government. They also worked with Empowering Communities, the south west regional cross sectoral consortium on public engagement. They were part of a social enterprise, researching community involvement in Local Strategic Partnerships for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Their work with local community sector groups has focused on community based learning and active citizenship support. They held an NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowship from 2017-2021.