Kasia is a clinical-academic dedicated to improving hospice-at-home services. She is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Ulster University and a Research Nurse at Marie Curie Hospice Belfast.

She has 15 years of experience working in palliative care in various roles - as a community nurse, practice development facilitator, but also in hospice service development, co-ordination and delivery.

Her doctoral research focuses on development of peer support intervention among healthcare assistants delivering hospice palliative and end-of-life care at home. In 2023, she led a qualitative study interviewing newly employed healthcare assistants across the UK, revealing that their increasingly complex role requires practical, hands-on training, lone working leads to significant feelings of isolation, and peer support networks are essential to wellbeing and care quality. In early 2024, she led a mixed-methods investigation identifying strong links between peer contact, wellbeing, and retention among these lone working healthcare assistants.

Co-researcher and member of advisory groups on a number of projects in areas such as loneliness, service integration, hospice workforce support, paramedic delivery of end-of-life, VR interventions.  

For her work she was nominated and shortlisted to a number of awards and was a recipient of Susie Wilkinson Award 2022 and  Nursing Times Award 2024 in Clinical Research Nursing category.

Kasia is active in national and international research networks.