Cathy is Research and Project Manager for the European Association for Palliative Care, based in Northern Ireland. She has worked within specialist palliative care since 2004, as a clinical dietitian, a lecturer and a researcher.

She is currently involved in the following EU research projects:

• MyPal – Fostering Palliative Care of Adults and Children with Cancer through Advanced Patient Reported Outcome Systems https://mypal-project.eu/ (completed December 2022)
• PalliativeSedation – The use of proportional palliative sedation for the relief of refractory symptoms. https://palliativesedation.eu/
• DIAdIC – developing and evaluating two different psychoeducational interventions for the person with cancer and the family caregiver together https://diadic.eu/
• PAINLESS – Pain relief in palliative care of cancer using home-based neuromodulation and predictive biomarkers https://palliativeprojects.eu/painless/
• EU-Navigate – Implementation and evaluation of a navigation intervention for people with cancer in old age and their family caregivers webpage 
• INSPiRE – INtegrated Short-term PallIative REhabilitation to improve quality of life and equitable care access in incurable cancer https://palliativeprojects.eu/inspire/
• MyPath – The digital solution to patient-centred cancer care pathways https://mypath-cancercare.eu/ 
• PAL-CYCLES – PALliative Care Yields Cancer welLbEing Support. https://palliativeprojects.eu/palcycles
• INTERACT-EUROPE – Innovative collaboration for Inter-specialty cancer training across Europe http://www.interact-europe.org/
• EUonQOL – Quality of Life in Oncology: measuring what matters for cancer patients and survivors in Europe www.euonqol.eu

Her research interests include palliative rehabilitation, cachexia, nutritional support, interprofessional working, eLearning. She created and co-hosts the Palliative Rehabilitation Facebook Group which has over 2900 members from across the world.