[1] Blackett's scholarship focuses on labour law and human rights issues.
[2][3] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 and was awarded a fellowship by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2016.
[4][5] Blackett has served as a commissioner of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse.
[2] As of 2018[update], she held a Canada Research Chair in transnational labour law and development.
[6] In 2023, she received the Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Labour Law Research Network.