Her academic and research interests primarily focus on a range of issues pertinent to domestic violence, including: child contact, mothering and fathering capacity, intimate partner homicide and risk assessment. She has a particular interest in ascertaining and representing the voice of the child in research. She is the Director of the MSc and Postgraduate Diploma in Child Protection and Welfare in Trinity College Dublin and currently Chair of the Irish branch of BASPCAN (British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect).