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Kat Simpson is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Community Studies at the University of Huddersfield, affiliated with the Department of Education within the School of Business, Education and Law. She has been with the university since 2020 and serves as Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Primary Education Studies. She is also a member of the Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society (HudCRES) and actively supervises PhD students.
- First-class degree in Early Primary Education
- PhD in Sociology of Education
Her research focuses on social haunting, deindustrialisation, and education within working-class communities, particularly in former coalfield areas of Britain. She employs critical ethnographic methods to explore how historical industrial legacies continue to shape educational experiences and social class dynamics. Her work is deeply interdisciplinary, intersecting sociology, education, geography, and cultural studies.
Her recent publications, including the 2021 monograph Social Haunting, Education, and the Working Class and the 2022 co-edited volume Education, Work and Social Change in Britain's Former Coalfields: The Ghost of Coal, demonstrate a consistent focus on the emotional, cultural, and structural impacts of industrial decline on education. Her articles analyze teacher perspectives, hidden curricula, and the intergenerational transmission of class identity in post-industrial settings.
Kat Simpson has received recognition through a Scopus h-index of 36 and has been active in academic and public engagement, including invited talks, conference organization, editorial reviewing for the Journal of Youth Studies, and public dissemination through exhibitions and media contributions such as the 'Ghost of Coal' and 'Authoring Our Own Stories' events.
She is actively involved in research supervision, curriculum leadership, and knowledge exchange, contributing to both scholarly discourse and community understanding of educational equity in deindustrialised regions.
