[2] After completing her doctorate in 2006, Rollock was appointed a postdoctoral fellow at London Metropolitan University, where she spent three years, before returning to the UCL Institute of Education as a research associate.
[4] The recommendations included sharing effective practice on recording racist incidents across the criminal justice system, improving the monitoring of racially motivated crime, increasing public scrutiny, addressing the retention and progression of black staff and reviewing the effectiveness of Stop and Search.
[9][10][11] Rollock identified that the underrepresentation of black women was due to explicit bias, bullying and racial stereotyping.
[13] In 2019, Rollock was appointed to the Home Affairs Select Committee Macpherson Report: Twenty Years On inquiry, which will examine progress in the two decades since the Murder of Stephen Lawrence.
[15][16] In this role, she leads a working group that engages academic and professional services staff as well as students to understand the origins of the achievement gap, and implement various solutions.
[15] The efforts are part of a wide Government of the United Kingdom initiative to end inequalities between different ethnicities in higher education.
"[23] Featuring photographs by Bill Knight,[24][25] Phenomenal Women was displayed at locations including in 2020 at London's Southbank Centre[26][27] and at the University of Cambridge in 2021.