Kexin Zhang is a PhD student at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation at King’s College London. She began her doctoral studies in October 2026, funded through the King’s–China Scholarship Council (K-CSC) programme.

She holds an MSc in Nursing from Tianjin Medical University and a BSc in Nursing from Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China. Her master’s research examined oral frailty and frailty trajectories in people with stroke.

Her previous research has also focused on frailty and multimorbidity, involving longitudinal data collection and quantitative analysis of clinical and population-based cohorts.

Her doctoral research aims to understand how frailty relates to changes in physical, psychological and cognitive health, quality of life and care needs among older adults following stroke. This work aims to inform care and support that better reflect people’s changing needs over time.