From 1990 to 1993 she was a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and a Research Assistant to Ann Brown, who was responsible for the Sir Arthur Evans Archive and the Aegean collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
From 1993 to 1996 she was the Richard Bradford McConnell Research Fellow in Aegean Archaeology at Balliol College, Oxford.
She has been teaching at the University of Bristol since September 1998, where she is Professor of Aegean Studies in the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
[3] In 1991 she received the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies,[4] for her research on Duncan Mackenzie.
[5] She has directed and co-directed archaeological projects in Crete (Knossos, Palaikastro) and Turkey (Iasos, Çaltılar).