She is a leading scholar on the incorporation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) matters within educational research, within teacher education, and within school education. She assembled and led an international interdisciplinary research team (2011-2012) that obtained the first ever Australian ARC Discovery grant in the area of sexuality education and was an Investigator on a Canadian SSHRC grant Affective Beginnings: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in teacher education. She is the author of Becoming Subjects (Routledge, 2006) and co-editor of Youth and Sexualities (Palgrave, 2004) and The Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education: Pleasure Bound. A monograph Progressive Sexuality Education: The Conceits of Secularism is also forthcoming (Routledge, 2014) and a Handbook of Sexuality Education (Palgrave, 2016) co-edited with Louisa Allen.