In 2018 she was appointed a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for her contribution to the promotion and advancement of the social sciences in New Zealand.
[1] Peace completed a PhD at the University of Waikato in 1999, titled Surface tension: Place/poverty/policy: From "poverty" to "social exclusion": Implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999.
[2] In 2006 Peace joined Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
She is the director of eSocSci, Hui Rangahou Tahi, New Zealand's national e-network of social scientists.
[4] Peace has served on a number of committees concerned with the social sciences, including the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, the Marsden Fund's Social Sciences Panel, the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship panel, and has represented the Royal Society Te Apārangi on the International Social Science Council, and the working group that developed the International Science Council.