She is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Geo-Humanities (with Veronica Della Dora),[3] and the Director of the Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.

[5] In 2016, she was winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize[6][7] and the Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Award.

It encourages work with an arts and humanities perspective on issues that have a strong geographical resonance, such as space, place, landscape, and environment.

[13][14] She serves as the Director of the Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership which awards 60 doctoral studentships per year, across nine academic institutions in London and the South East of England, in partnership with organisations such as Historic Royal Palaces, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the National Theatre and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

[19] She was appointed member of the Geography and Environmental Studies expert sub-panel for the 2021 UK Research Excellence Framework assessment.