She is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, where she is also the director of the Australian Human Rights Institute.
Chappell attended the University of New England in New South Wales, where she earned a bachelor's degree and a graduate certificate in political science in 1990.
[1] In 2002, Chappell published Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada.
[2] Chappell studies how the different arrangements of electoral, bureaucratic, legal, and federal institutions in Canada and Australia prompted feminist activists to use different strategies in their attempts to influence policy, and compares the resulting political outcomes.
[5] Chappell wrote a second book, The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court, in 2016.