Katrina d’Apice is a Senior Research Associate in Mixed Methods at Bristol Medical School and an NIHR Three Research Schools Prevention Programme Post-Doctoral Fellow (2025–2027). She leads the Growing with Nature project, which explores nature-based interventions to support mental health and wellbeing during pregnancy.

Her research interests in perinatal mental health and nature-based approaches stem from previous work evaluating mental health services and interventions. Since joining the University of Bristol in 2021, Katrina has contributed to a portfolio of projects, including an NIHR-funded study on integrating community mental health support, an evaluation of an adolescent wellbeing screening tool, and an enhanced NHS Talking Therapies service addressing the wider determinants of mental health.

From 2024–2025, Katrina coordinated the NIHR School for Public Health Research's Healthy Places, Healthy Planet programme, broadening her knowledge of key public health issues, including environmental sustainability and the commercial determinants of health. Prior to joining Bristol, she worked at the University of York on a feasibility study of an early-years language development intervention, building on her PhD research into parenting, language input, and child development. Before moving into research, Katrina taught science in secondary schools for almost a decade, which honed her ability to communicate complex scientific concepts clearly to a range of audiences.