A BBC trained, award-winning TV producer and director, Kate is a member of BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, Women in Journalism, and Directors UK; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Woman of the Year Alumna, Special Advisor to The European Women’s Audiovisual Network, and visiting Professor of Gender in Media at the University of Hertfordshire.
In 2014 Kate was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for services to women in the film and television industry and, with Ralph Fiennes and Richard Linklater, was made an Honorary Associate of the London Film School. In 2017, she was awarded a Doctorate of Arts (honoris causa) by Bournemouth University in recognition of her work.