She read English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, and completed a master's degree in music, history and culture at Oxford Brookes University, where she also gained her doctorate for her thesis "The MacNeices and their Circles: Poets & Composers in Collaboration 1939-54".
[6] Her collaboration with Michael Leighton Jones, Anthem for the Feast of any Healer, was first performed by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, directed by Stephen Layton.
[8] Two collaborations with Peter Campbell, Sunlight touches the roses and In Advent heat, were written for and recorded by the Choir of Trinity College (University of Melbourne).
[10] She has published on Lutheran compositions with Loewe, creating English study translations of the German libretti of Bach's St John Passion,[11] and Martin Luther's iconic hymn "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God").
[2] In 2013, she received the University of Melbourne's Norman Curry Award for her work in developing Thesis Boot Camp with educators Peta Freestone and Liam Connell.