She conducts research, publishes, and presents scholarly papers both nationally and internationally in the field of traumatic stress studies including secondary traumatic stress, vicarious witnessing, acute and post-traumatic stress responses, and trauma treatment. She has been the principle investigator on several studies looking at the impact of trauma on photojournalists and journalists, including a national project focused on the experiences of Canadian photojournalists and journalists assigned to trauma, disaster, and conflict events. A number of articles are currently published that report the findings of these projects.