Her research centres on the intersections of gender, technology and the body, particularly in relation to bodily transformations; she has explored these issues in the context of assisted reproduction, the surgical management of obesity, and most recently, in relation to extreme endurance sport. She is the co-editor (with Flora Alexander) of Gender and Interpersonal Violence: Language, Action and Representation (Palgrave, 2008) and the author of When IVF Fails: Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (Palgrave, 2004) and Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity (Manchester University Press, 2016).