[1][2] In 1994 she moved to the University of Cambridge as Rosalind Franklin Research Fellow, Newnham College and in 1997 became a senior research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy there.
From 1999 to 2003 she was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the same department.
From 2005 to 2008 she was also a visiting professor at the Brockhouse Institute at McMaster University.
[5] Etheridge won the University of Cambridge's K. M. Stott Prize in 1995[3] and the John Sanders Medal awarded by the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society in 2016.
[6] In 2012 she presented the Lloyd Rees Lecture of the Australian Academy of Science.