Kauser joined Young Lives in January 2025 as a Data Research Assistant, and she is also part of the Research Hub on Climate Change and Environmental Shocks. 

Kauser has an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where her thesis investigated the association between unclean cooking fuel usage upon depression, using data from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), and exploring how the persistent hold of gender and caste inequalities may heighten this association.

Her research interests include the political–economic determinants of health, how global institutions have shaped the developmental trajectory of healthcare systems in the Global South, and the impact of urbanisation, land use changes, and labour market segmentation upon disease and debility, particularly psychiatric illness. She is interested in the epistemic critique of how development and underdevelopment are linked through continuation of violent and extractive power relations, in the lineage of scholars such as Walter Rodney and Samir Amin, and the application of heterodox economics and degrowth frameworks to urgently address the climate crisis.