She is a Senior Researcher in the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies and a member of the "Vulnerability, Resilience, and Policing Research Consortium." She is a leading scholar on how sexuality, gender, and sex diversity influences policing and criminal justice experiences, and how young people from vulnerable groups experience policing. Angela joined the University of Tasmania in November 2015. Previously, she was a Lecturer (2007-2011) and Senior Lecturer (2011-2015) with the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, at the Queensland University of Technology.