She has authored several Cochrane reviews on midwife-led settings and hundreds of peer-reviewed papers.

[1] She also received an honorary doctorate in health sciences from the University of Technology Sydney in 2014.

[3] Her research has been funded by the ESRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust, NIHR, and other charitable sources.

Research she has conducted or been involved with includes organisational case studies looking at safety of Birthplace in England, and the relationship between maternity workforce staffing and outcomes using secondary data analysis.

Her research has been used by the UK government commission on Nursing and Midwifery, House of Commons Health Committee on Inequalities, NHS London, and US, Brazilian and Australian reviews of maternity services.