For many years, she co-ordinated the MA Art Curatorship program in the program. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British and Australian colonial art; technical art history; and museum studies. Her experience in the field of curatorial studies is reflected in her membership of several museum boards (including Museum Victoria and the Duldig Studio). Her current research focuses on two ARC-funded projects: Australian art exhibitions 1968-2009: a generation of cultural transformation; and Human kind: eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century British and Australian portraits in the National Gallery of Victoria. She also was curator (with Patricia Macdonald) of the exhibition For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2014.