Kate Binnie

Kate is an HCPC registered music therapist with 20 years’ clinical experience in palliative care, based in Oxford. In 2016 she completed an MSc in palliative care from King’s College London funded by the Samuel Sebba Scholarship. Kate is also a qualified yoga and mindfulness teacher and works with people with chronic and life-limiting conditions and their families into bereavement. She delivers training workshops for clinicians at the Oxford Centre for Education and Research in Palliative Care  and is a guest lecturer on the MSc in Palliative Care at KCL and on the UK’s first PG training in Psycho-spiritual care at Oxford Brookes University. After 5 years on the Wellcome-funded Life of Breath project, Kate is now in the final year of her part-time PhD at the Wolfson Centre for Palliative Care Research at the Hull York Medical School funded by UKRI (i3) exploring the relationship between emotion regulation and breathlessness in advanced disease.