Kaia already knows the Faculty of Theology well after over 18 years as a student and employee. Until recently, Kaia was employed as a postdoctor on the research project NORDHOST: Nordic Hospitalities in a Context of Migration and Refugee Crisis.
In 2016 Kaia completed her doctoral dissertation Calling Bodies in Lived Spaces: Spatial Explorations on the Concept of Calling in a Public Urban Space, where she combined the perspective of production of space, ethical theory and fieldwork, focusing on the contradictions in lived space, by observing encounters and interactions between different groups of people in everyday public space.