Before coming to Stanford, she completed her Ph.D. in Political Philosophy within the School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York (UK), and was then a 2014-2015 Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Italy). Bidadanure's interests lie at the intersection of philosophy and public policy. She writes on social justice in general, and in particular, on social egalitarianism, inequalities between age groups, and what it means to treat young people as equals. She has also written on youth unemployment, poverty and exclusion, and on the policy proposals of unconditional basic income, basic capital, and the introduction of youth quotas in parliaments.