[4][5] From 2001–2003 Shaw was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Food Science and Technology at University College Dublin.

She also appeared in Satellites & Meteorites (2008), A Shine of Rainbows (2009), Hideaways (2011), Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure (2012), and You're Ugly Too (2015).

[17] In 2019, she travelled to NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas to speak at their annual Cross Industry Innovation Summit.

[19][20] In preparation for this, she developed an educational programme with the Environmental Awareness Office of Laois County Council for classrooms on climate change and the extreme environment of the Antarctic.

[23] Shaw's theatre project, Diary of a Martian Beekeeper,[24] premiered at Space week 2017, followed by a limited run in 2018.

[25] The show was funded under Science Foundation Ireland's 2017 Discover programme, working with ESA's Astronaut Centre to capture the massive group effort behind human space exploration.

[30] In 2018, she was an advisor and artist at a new analogue Mars facility, D-MARS, located in the Ramon Crater, Israel, and documented their first analog mission, D-MARS01.

[31] Shaw has worked with Lottie Dolls to create a workshop for young girls, combining drama and space exploration.

[32] She has brought along Stargazer Lottie to her Mars Analog mission experiences, both in Utah and Israel,[33] as well as bringing the doll to the zero-g flight in Russia.

[36] Shaw won a Science Foundation Ireland Outstanding Contribution to STEM Communication Award in 2018, sharing with Dr. John O'Donoghue of the Royal Society of Chemistry.