Her research examines how governments foster identities and belonging through education during social and political transition. Worden’s book National Identity and Education Reform: Contested Classrooms (Routledge 2014) examines these issues in the context of Post-Soviet Moldova. Her current project focuses on teachers, social memory, and citizenship education in post-conflict Northern Ireland. As a Fulbright Scholar, she spent 5 months conducting field work there in 2014-2015. Dr. Worden has recently been appointed as a visiting professor to Ulster University in Northern Ireland where she will be in residence for a month each year until 2019. She has published articles in journals including Comparative Education, Journal of European Education, and Comparative Education Review.