Her 2011 PhD thesis, "A linguistic history of Cyprus: the non-Greek languages, and their relations with Greek, c. 1600-300 BC" was awarded the Hare Prize, and published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press in 2013.
Between 2016 and 2021 she was the director of the five-year ERC funded project Contexts and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
[10] She is currently the Principle Investigator of the Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) project, also at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
[11] Philippa Steele received the Arts and Humanities Impact Fund Award in 2020 in order to produce free teaching resources for the study of ancient writing systems.
[12] She has also spoken about the importance of her pastoral role and experiences as a female academic as the Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.