[2] She completed a PhD titled Cognitive distortions in child sexual offenders: fact of fiction?
[3] Gannon then undertook a four year postdoctoral fellowship at Victoria University of Wellington, working with psychologist Tony Ward on the psychology of sexual offenders, before returning to the UK.
[5] Gannon is interested in sexual offending in men and women, and the cognitive behaviour of deliberate firesetters.
[6][7] She describes providing a treatment plan for a sexual offender, but realising that he had a history of arson, and had never been treated specifically for it.
[1] Gannon obtained funding from the Economic and Social Research Council to explore the characteristics of firesetters, and eventually developed a theory of firesetting.