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Katherine Kowalski

  • Blogger, On The Mother Hand
England
As seen in: Medium, BBC, MDPI, HuffPost UK
Covers:  Health, wellbeing, healthcare, social care, disability, special needs, parenthood, mental health, health insurance, employee wellbeing, carers
Doesn't Cover: Anything promoting harm to people or planet.
Writer of strange, true things. Neurodivergent, parent carer. Always by the sea.

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Katherine Kowalski’s Biography

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Over the last 18 years I have written for a huge variety of clients across health, disability, parenthood, finance, sustainability, social enterprise, property, food and drink, marine renewable energy, conservation, small business and export.

I recent times I have written pieces as varied as:

  • thought leadership articles on digital health and the future of healthcare globally, published in UAE

  • guest feature pieces on mental health in the workplace for large-scale employers

  • advertorial copy…

Katherine Kowalski’s Journalist Portfolio

Katherine Kowalski: Life with Lawrence, whose syndrome has no name

Katherine Kowalski: Life with Lawrence, whose syndrome has no name

No-one knows why two-year-old Lawrence lives with multiple disabilities. To mark the inaugural Undiagnosed Ch…

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Hearts and Heads: A Mother's Experience of Disability and Termination

Hearts and Heads: A Mother's Experience of Disability and Termination

Before I had my son I would have mistakenly and quite offensively believed that life with a disabled child wo…

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Don't lose your head. A story of when epilepsy and motherhood collide.

Don't lose your head. A story of when epilepsy and motherhood collide.

When our first babies reached a year old, my friends and I cheerily raised a drink or two to celebrate having…

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Dear Children's Commissioner...about that home education thing.

Dear Children's Commissioner...about that home education thing.

The Children's Commissioner has started to weave a dangerous and harmful web in the minds of society that hom…

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What does the hospital of the future look like?

What does the hospital of the future look like?

Ghost written thought leadership piece on behalf of Healthcare UK CEO, Deborah Kobewka, on the future of heal…

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Why the NHS is moving towards digital-first healthcare

Why the NHS is moving towards digital-first healthcare

Ghost written thought leadership article on behalf of Dr Ben Maruthappu, co-founder of the NHS Innovation Acc…

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Articles

SARS-CoV-2 Symptoms during the Omicron Surge Differ between Boosted and Vaccinated Non-Boosted Persons

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By Paul Visintainer, Elizabeth D. Drugge, Katherine Kowalski, Marisa A. Montecalvo
| MDPI
All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.
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- Pass The Saltwater

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By Katherine Kowalski
| passthesaltwater.com
Stress can fly at us from all directions. While I knew that families whose children have disabilities experience far higher levels of stress than those without disabilities, a great deal of the research that has been done into the subject doesn’t really explore why. Lately I’ve been on a quest to better understand the sources of stress for families who have one or more disabled child, and to find out (and try out) the most effective ways of managing it.
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COVID-19 Chronicles: Episode 1 “Solitary times in an information vacuum”

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By Katherine Kowalski
| onthemotherhand.co.uk
If there’s one thing that raising an undiagnosed kid has taught me, it’s that living with uncertainty is hard. Not being able to imagine what the next year, month, week or even day might bring means that normal daily life is awkwardly bookended somewhere between denial and panic. You can fill the shelves with plenty of good stuff in between, but there are still days when the bookends themselves stand taller on the shelf than the many wonderful narratives they frame.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing for the student paper, Gair Rhydd. I still don't know what that means in English.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes!

How is social media changing news?

Fact and fiction are stepping over each other in real time, and in vast quantities, in perpetuity.

Awards

SWAN UK Most Informative Post

2014 - Blog

Award given as part of charity SWAN UK media awards. A single annual award chosen by a panel of experts in disability advocacy.

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