Grant was awarded a Churchill Fellow and investigated the design of correctional facilities for Indigenous prisoners in the United States, New Zealand, Canada and Denmark for her fellowship.
[30] Grant also worked with historians to examine built environments and the treatment of Australian Indigenous peoples in the colonial era.
The Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established, and emerging authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, United States and other countries.
Grant was a member of the Australian Creative Team (Tristan Wong, Jefa Greenaway, Aaron Puls and Jordyn Milliken) for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (originally to be held in 2020), but deferred until 2021 due to the Covid pandemic.
The exhibit entitled 'In Between' highlights the potential of architecture to build cultural understandings between First Nations Peoples and others with a focus on Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and other Pacific neighbours, addressing the overarching theme set by Hashim Sarkis titled “How will we live together?” Grant was awarded an undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Adelaide and was a collegian at St Ann's College during her studies.
[39] She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture from the University of Adelaide for her thesis entitled 'Towards safer and more congruent environments for Aboriginal Prisoners.'
Grant was born and raised in Mount Gambier spending considerable periods of her childhood with her maternal grandparents and the extended Eames Family in Sea Lake, Victoria.
[41] Her German immigrant father, Berthold Enderl valued education highly due to interrupted schooling and experiences growing up during World War II in Regensburg, Bavaria and encouraged his children to study and work hard.