She is an architectural historian by training with a specialist focus on South and Southeast Asian architecture. Her most recent publications include, Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society (2009), Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser under the Cloth (2012) and with Janet McGaw, Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures, Australia and Beyond (forthcoming. 2014). She teaches design in both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.