Since 2019, she has been Professor of Modern British History at Durham University.
[2] From 1996 to 2000, she carried out doctoral studies at the University of Liverpool[3] under the supervision of Andrew Davies and Jon Lawrence;[4] she was awarded a PhD in 2000 for her thesis on death and mourning in the British working classes during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
[5] After working as a research assistant on the archives of the United Africa Company and (for two years) as a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, she joined the Department of History at the University of Manchester in 2003.
[2] In 2019, she moved to Durham University to be Professor of Modern British History.
[3][6] Strange was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019; the citation called her "a leading figure in framing historically-informed research questions around issues of the marketplace and accountability in humanitarian discourse and practice".