Lana Cook is a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, where her doctoral research explores experiences of pancreatic cancer across the illness trajectory in Northern Ireland. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing from Queen’s University Belfast and has contributed to research in pancreatic cancer, delirium, and dementia. Her doctoral research uses constructivist grounded theory to explore the pancreatic cancer journey from the perspectives of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, their care partners, and healthcare professionals. Her wider research interests include psycho-oncology, critical illness, death and dying, supportive and palliative care, qualitative research, health professions education, game-based and gamified learning, and women’s health.