[1][2] She is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

[4][5] She has been a faculty member at Queen's University since 2009, where she is director of the Sexuality and Gender Lab.

[4][5] In 2019, Chivers was appointed as a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, an honour given to two individuals each year.

[3][5] In one line of research, Chivers measured biological and sexual responses of men and women to different types of pornography to analyze human sexual response patterns.

[7][8] After reports that women respond with vaginal lubrication even to stimuli depicting rape, Chivers hypothesized that the lubrication might not relate only to female sexual desire, that it is also a separate system, an evolutionary adaptive one, that protect females from damage in sexual violence.