She is an emeritus fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, having retired from teaching in 2016, and in August 2021 began serving a five year term as an independent member on the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) of the United Kingdom.

[2][3] On 11 December 1980 Peele was on the panel of the BBC Question Time debate programme.

[4] Peele was to serve as an independent on the House of Lords Appointments Commission from 2013 until 2019.

[5] In September 2016, Peele retired from her position at LMH as well as that Associate Professor with the Oxford University Department of Politics and International Relations.

[2] Peele, together with Ewen Fergusson, was appointed as an independent member to the UK's Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) in August 2021 for a five-year term.