She is the deputy director of the Durham Global Security Institute, and a member of the Law and Global Justice Research Cluster in Durham Law School. She was formerly the Chair of the Ethics and Data Protection Sub-Committee in Durham Law School and a member of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Ethics Committee. Prior to joining Durham Law School in 2013 Catherine was a member of Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute (2004 – 2012), where she taught on the LLM in Human Rights and Transitional Justice. She was also Director of the annual Summer School on Transitional Justice.