[2] Her dissertation focussed on sociosexual behaviour and the female-female relationships of bonobos, under the supervision of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
[2] After graduating UCD, Parish moved to University College London, where she worked with Volker Sommer on behavioural patterns of animals.
[9] At USC she has taught eighteen different topics in across a range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Gender Studies, Arts and Letters, Health and Humanities, School of Education, Psychology.
[11] In 2012 she gave a talk at the Natural History Museum, where she revealed "bonobos have more sex, in more ways, and for more reasons, than most humans can imagine".
[19][13] Parish was featured in Angela Saini's 2017 book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story.
[20][21] Parish has been featured in Ms Magazine, as well as on the television Nova, National Geographic Explorer and Discovery Channel.