She has a keen interest in sports culture and communication with a particular focus on different forms and aspects of leadership and teamwork, and the multiple functions of humour. Together with her colleagues in the group she has researched how racial humour in a football team may contribute to team cohesion as well as fragmentation, and how easily humour can fail and what negative consequences this may have for athletes when this happens during media interviews. She is currently exploring the effects of different leadership constellations in a netball team, and how leadership becomes a collective activity when the coach is not present.