She has held senior roles at the University of Kent (Deputy-Vice-Chancellor); Sheffield Hallam University (Provost) and University of Warwick (Pro-Vice-Chancellor). Her research focusses on feminist and gender issues and has covered areas such as stepfamily life, education, and career progression.
She has published over 15 books through her career and her 2020 edited collection Transdisciplinary Feminist Research, London, Routledge (with Carol Taylor and Jasmine Ulmer) was shortlisted for the American Educational Research Association prize ‘Outstanding Book of the Year 2021’.
Over her career she has won around £1.5m in external grant capture. Her upcoming publications are International Perspectives of Leadership in Higher Education (2022, with Alasdair Blair, Darrell Evans and Malcolm Tight) and the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Transdisciplinary Research (2023, with Carol Taylor, Jasmine Ulmer and Michelle Salazar Perez).