She is especially interested in issues of gender and sport and has published widely on the topic of female sports fandom. She is author of The Feminization of Sports Fandom: A Sociological Study (2017), co-editor (with Gertrud Pfister) of Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World (2018) and her work has appeared in a range of journals. Her research to date has included a number of areas, for example, the sociology of football and rugby union, comparative research in sports fandom, female fans of men’s football and their views of women’s football, the meaning of sport for women and women’s formative sporting experiences.