She is a social and cultural geographer with research interests in gender; the spaces and practices of death, remembrance and pilgrimage; charity shops as social spaces; the histories and epistemologies of geographical knowledge and practice, including educational policy and pedagogy. She is an editor of the journal Gender, Place & Culture and author of Complex Locations: Women’s geographical work in the UK 1850-1970 (RGS/Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); Deathscapes: Spaces for death, dying, mourning and remembrance (Ashgate, 2010, with James Sidaway); and joint editor of Memory, Mourning, Landscape (Rodopi, 2010).