She moved to the London School of Economics for her graduate studies, earned a master's degree[citation needed] and PhD in 2005.

[8] She is a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, where she teachers courses European Union law.

[11] She was made a member of the Valuation Tribunal for England, which looks to support legal appeals for the population of the United Kingdom.

[12] In January 2018 Solanke was appointed the Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, where she is working on the theory and practise of judiciary diversity in Europe.

[12][14] The inquiry was launched in November 2018, and will inform the University College London strategy on teaching and studying eugenics, as well as identifying its relationships with modern-day racism.