[4] In 2014 she undertook a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to examine the role of identity in explaining perceptions of work-life balance.
[8] She holds a European Research Council Consolidator Grant examining the way in which context and identity shape and constrain women’s careers.
[9] Ryan was appointed director of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at the Australian National University, with effect from 1 July 2021.
[10] She remains in the position as of November 2024[update][11] In 2006, Ryan was a runner-up in the ESRC's Michael Young Prize (2006).
[12] The term "glass cliff" was shortlisted as Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016.