Katerina Chatzovoulou

As the Impact and Data Officer at Together for Short Lives, Katerina works with sensitive and clinical data to inform, disseminate, and strengthen scientific, clinical, and critical research. Her work supports the organisation’s mission to reach and support even more children and families. A strong commitment to inclusive, equity-focused, and critically engaged research underpins her approach, ensuring that lived experience and voices that are often underrepresented are meaningfully centred.

Alongside this role, she is a qualified and HCPC-registered psychotherapist with an extensive clinical and research background working with vulnerable populations internationally. Her experience spans oncology hospitals in Greece, migrant camps in Oslo, and NHS Lothian hospitals, where she has supported individuals and communities across both clinical and community settings. This experience supports a holistic and empathetic approach, informed by ongoing reflection and attention to structural barriers that affect access and care.

Her academic and research career spans over ten years, including work as a scientific researcher with the Music Cognition, Computation and Community Laboratory at the University of Athens. She has served on the editorial board of the British Association of Dramatherapists’ scientific journal and has taught postgraduate students in research and psychotherapy at Teesside University. Her research has been authored and developed in collaboration with international institutions such as the University of Melbourne, the Polytechnic University of Porto, and Boston University.

Committed to fostering collaboration, Katerina works with researchers, clinicians, and families to ensure that knowledge and insight translate into meaningful improvements in care and support.