Storytelling researcher, University of Wollongong

Dr Kate Bowles is a healthcare storytelling researcher at the University of Wollongong, and is a consumer representative on the Clinical Governance Council and Standard 2 Committees for the Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD. She is an experienced health consumer as a patient in maternity and oncology, and as a carer in drug and alcohol and mental health. She is also the parent of a young person transitioning through gender affirming health services.