Her research focuses on teachers and students in learning contexts, with emphasis on motivation, instruction, and resilience. Caroline has led two successful funded projects on teacher resilience, Keeping Cool: Embedding resilience in initial teacher education curriculum, and BRiTE: Building Resilience in Teacher Education. She is also a third country partner in Keeping Cool Europe: Enhancing Teacher REsilience in Europe and involved in an interdisciplinary resilience project VetSet2Go: Building Veterinary Employability. She has received awards of excellence for research, teaching and professional service and in 2016 has been awarded an OLT National Teaching Fellowship to continue work in teacher resilience.