Kathryn has over 5 years health promotion experience leading the planning, implementation and evaluation of numerous randomised control trials and large-scale school based health promotion programs. Kathryn's PhD project (healthy food@school) is the "Scale up of a multi-strategic program to increase implementation of the NSW healthy canteen policy". This is the first trial internationally to evaluate the large-scale dissemination of an efficacious canteen implementation trial. Kathryn's area of research and expertise is school based healthy eating and physical activity policy and practice implementation with a focus on theory based implementation science. Kathryn has recently worked with the NSW Ministry of Health to inform the review of Fresh Tastes@School healthy canteen policy and development of the new NSW Healthy Canteen Strategy and menu assessment tools (2017). Kathryn was awarded a HCRA 2018 Implementation Science HDR Student Award ($5000.00), a Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour (UoN) 2017 Project Grant $4930.00, a Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour (UoN) 2016 PhD Top-up Grant $5000.00 and recently the Jennie Thomas Research Travel Grant $9300.00.