 Having trained in the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course, she was ordained deacon in 1997 and priest in 1998.Shaw was Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, from 2010 to 2014.Shaw has held appointments as an honorary chaplain and honorary canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Director of the Oxford University Summer Programme in Theology, and Canon Theologian of Salisbury Cathedral, a new post created in 2007 to assist the bishop and cathedral chapter in their theological reflections.