She initially worked alongside Mr Murdock for the India Office, with a focus on steel analysis.
She presented a paper entitled Some Chemical Problems in the Cotton Industry at the International Conference of Women in Science, Industry and Commerce at the British Empire Exhibition on 16 July 1925, speaking alongside the American engineer Ethel H. Bailey and electrical engineer Margaret Partridge.
[6] Her work experimenting with very small specimens led to her selection in 1931 by Dr Cecil H. Desch to develop microchemical methods in the NPL.
As a result of this work she became active in the British Microchemical Club and became known as an authority on microchemistry, developing new techniques and apparatus for use within the field.
[2] Her work in microchemistry led her to become a member of the British Standards Institution sub-committee contributing to the production of updates to B.S.