Katy Goldstraw

Biography

Dr Katy Goldstraw is a lecturer in Health and Social Care. Katy teaches on undergraduate BSc Health & Social Care modules and supervises both Masters and PhD Students. Katy is passionate about supporting students using creative and participatory approaches to learning.

Her PhD used participatory research methods to consider voluntary sector responses to austerity. She has worked in Higher Education and the Voluntary Sector throughout her career; writing on VCS assets, citizens voice, and anti-poverty participatory approaches. She has a particular research interest in using participatory arts-based research methods to include and empower the voices of previously unheard communities within her research.

Teaching

BSc Health & Social Care

Publications

• Goldstraw, K (2026) How to Tackle Poverty with Co-Produced Activism; Knowledge from Lived Experience, Policy Press, Bristol
• Page, S., Coates, M., Tipping, J., Frangos, J. and Goldstraw, K., (2023). Action on Poverty in the UK, Palgrave, London
• Goldstraw, K. and Page, S., (2023). Editorial 'Action on Poverty and Hardship in the English Potteries'. Local Economy.
• Goldstraw, K., (2022.) Co-producing ideas, leaders and learning–teaching participatory activism in Stoke-on-Trent. Local Economy, 37(8), pp.676-691.
• Goldstraw, K. and Beeput, A,. (2022) Participatory Approaches to Building Knowledge in L. Tilly, (Ed). Understanding Health and Social Care Research: Methods in Context. Routledge
• Goldstraw, K. Herrington, T., Croft, T,. Skelton, D., Murrinas, D and Gratton, N. (2021) Socially Distanced Activism: Voices of Lived Experience of Poverty During COVID-19. Policy Press.
• Goldstraw, K,. Diamond,J,. Chicot, H,. Broome,.D (2021) Lifelong Learning in Rochdale: Building Sustainable Community Voices Journal of Lifelong Learning and Community Participation
• Goldstraw, K,. Macmillan, A,. Mort, H,. Pahl, K., Pool, S., Rafiq, Z., Rasool, Z (2020) Co-Producing Artistic Approaches to Social Cohesion Research for All
• Goldstraw, K (2018) Using Creativity to envision a Good Society Local Economy Nov 2018
• Goldstraw, K (2018) Editorial for Local Economy Special Issue on a Good Society. Local Economy Nov 2018
• Goldstraw, K., Davidson,E., Packham,C. (2017) Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis as a response to the crisis in the Community and Voluntary Sector Illness Crisis and Loss
• Kagan, C. Lawthom, O, Clennon, O. Fisher, J. Diamond, J. Goldstraw, K (2016) Sustainable Communities: University-Community Partnership Research on Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development Springer