Kate Fletcher

Kate practiced as a hospital pharmacist for 20 years, working in NHS hospitals in London, Oxford and Reading. She started working as a Teacher Practitioner at Reading School of Pharmacy in 2005, and became a full time academic in 2015. Kate completed a Master’s in Education in 2017, was awarded senior fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and became a University of Reading Teaching Fellow in the same year.

Kate has a wide range of clinical and teaching experience, and is currently the module convenor of a second year MPharm module. She founded the Reading Education Research Network which now has over 60 members across UK and Malaysian campuses. Her scholarship interests include equality, diversity and inclusion in pharmacy education, technology-enhanced learning, and sustainability in pharmacy education. She became the Pharmacy Education Lead for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in 2023 and has presented in the UK and internationally on sustainability in education.