She has recently completed an Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) mid-career fellowship, working on a Photographic electronic Narrative (PeN) project with trainees on placement at a ‘prisoner’ resettlement scheme. This followed a Sociology of Health and Illness (SHI) Foundation Mildred Blaxter post-doctoral fellowship, exploring commensality. Her book Gender, Class and Food, Families, Bodies and Health (Palgrave MacMillan 2015), was shortlisted for the Foundation of Health and Illness (FHI) book prize in 2016. She is convener of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Food Study Group and member of the BSA Auto/Biography study group.