Steggles is an honorary member of the German Potters Association, Kalkspatz, a Commonwealth Fellow and a Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute Scholar.
Steggles received a Commonwealth Scholarship (1990–92) to study with Dr. Alison Yarrington, an authority on British public monuments at the University of Leicester.
Steggles was the first to catalogue all of the statues exported to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia in her search to discover what happened to these remnants of colonial rule post-Independence.
Her books include Statues of the Raj (2000),[5][6][7][8] British Sculpture in India: New Views and Old Memories (2011 with Richard Barnes),[9][10][11][12][13] The Traditional and Religious Arts of Asia (2014 with Cristofre Martin)[14] and MUD, Hands, fire (2015).
[15] Steggles has contributed numerous chapters in publications on colonial monuments including Christopher London's, Architecture in Victorian and Edwardian India (1994),[16][17] Pauline Rohatgi and Pherozah Godrej's Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives (2007).
She has contributed entries for The Revised Guinness History of British Sculptors 1660-1851, The Encyclopedia of Sculpture[23] and The Dictionary of National Biography.