Kate Norman
Visiting Fellow
Address
- Street
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Doorway 6, Medical Quad, Teviot Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Kate is a qualified Social Worker who retired from working in Local Government in 2004, to set up a consultancy business to improve the quality of social care, which she ran until she took her MSc (Research) Sociology at the University of Edinburgh from 2009. She then undertook her PhD, researching the social care of transgender people in Scotland, which she completed in 2015.
Kate’s PhD reviewed levels of social care need and service provision for transgender people in Scotland, within dedicated and generic services, and from the perspectives of transgender people themselves. The findings, from three online surveys and nineteen online interviews, identified varying levels of support from transgender groups, gender specialists, GPs, counsellors/psychiatrists, families and friends, and from care staff. Key areas of need included gender identity and transition issues, family concerns, documentation, mental and physical health issues, and issues relating to social integration, including the effects of transphobia and social isolation.
Kate subsequently submitted a report based on her research, to the Scottish Government based, which can be found on the University of Edinburgh C.R.F.R. website:
http://www.crfr.ac.uk/assets/Report-to-the-Scottish-Government-Socialising-Transgender.pdf
Kate was a member of the ‘gender reassignment protocol/pathway group for Scotland, coordinated by NHS Scotland, whose report and recommendations were published in January 2012:
Project activity
'Socialising Transgender': book to be published by Dunedin Press in May, 2017