Previously she was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Griffith University, based in the Griffith Asia Institute. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of Southeast Asian political economy (especially Malaysia), gendered approaches to the study of political economy and global governance, and studies of work and migration. She is the co-editor (with Samanthi J. Gunawardana) of The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and author of Fashioning Inequality: The Multinational Company and Gendered Employment in a Globalizing World (Ashgate, 2004). She has published her research in a range of journals including International Political Sociology, International Feminist Journal of Politics, The Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly, and Economy and Society.