Carr was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in archaeology by the University of Cambridge in 1999.
She current chairs IHRA's 'Safeguarding Sites' project, which is writing a charter to safeguard Holocaust heritage in Europe.
Carr's graduate degrees and early research was on the Iron Age and Roman Archaeology.
Her work on Channel Islander victims of Nazism were the subject of an exhibition titled: On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands at the Wiener Holocaust Library from October 2017 to February 2018.
Carr has also researched the material culture of the Channel Islanders deported to internment camps in Germany during the Second World War.