Since 2007, her research has focused on refugees from Burma/Myanmar: first with Karen refugees in camps in Thailand and more recently with Chin urban refugees in Malaysia and India. Her first book, Governing Refugees: Justice, order and legal pluralism (Routledge 2014), analysed camp governance and the administration of justice among Karen refugees in Thailand. She has also published on issues including governance by non-state armed groups, the history and management of refugee camps, legal pluralism and non-state justice systems, forced migration in Southeast Asia, critical victimology, transitional justice, and constitutional reform.