Her books include Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices from Within (2013) and Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges (2009). Her multidisciplinary research has been published in numerous international journals and book chapters. It spans governance in authoritarian states, democratisation, development, ethnicity, regionalism and political Islam. She has served as President of the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) and is Convenor of the Religion, State & Society (RSS) Network at the University of Sydney.