Her dissertation explored weight identity in women who were categorized by health systems as "morbidly obese.

This volume brought together scholarship from various disciplines in order to examine experiences of fat people and intersectionality.

[21] Across New Zealand, she spoke to Rotary clubs, district health boards, secondary schools, and other groups.

Pause contributed to other online outlets, such as The Conversation (an online journal that provides information, analysis, and commentary; prepared by scholars for a lay audience),[25][26][27] Inside Higher Education,[28] Conditionally Accepted,[29] and the Health at Every Size blog.

Shortly before her death, Steven Crowder, an American conservative comedian, uploaded a video on YouTube of himself infiltrating a 2020 online fat studies conference in which Pausé was involved at Massey University.

Crowder, under a made-up name, portrayed himself as a gender-queer fat studies activist and scholar, and presented a fake academic paper that was accepted by the conference.

Crowder claimed being accepted without question to the conference showed the "idiocy" of the fat studies field.

[44][16] The Tumblr was created in response to Professor Geoffrey Miller having tweeted that fat people did not have the willpower to complete a PhD program.

While I appreciate those who want to call him out, and yes he deserves it, I’m more interested in addressing the social narratives in which individual comments like Dr. Miller’s are encouraged.

I decided that what I wanted to do was to highlight all the amazing fat individuals who are in graduate school, or have completed graduate school – to provide a visual repository for anyone who doubts that fat individuals lack the abilities or qualities to succeed in academia.Pausé was involved with the Tertiary Education Union at a national level, sitting on the national council as Women’s Vice-President for six years and also academic representative.