She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s.

[5] In November 2020, Strimpel became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969.

[6] She has written on relations between men and women for Elle,[7] the Sunday Times Style magazine,[8] and HuffPost.

Strimpel has appeared on radio and television as a commentator to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity,[13][14][15] including the BBC[16] and Al Jazeera.

[17] She appeared in the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age in 2018 to discuss online dating apps.