From 2005-2012, she was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University (2008); an HLA Hart Visiting Research Fellow at University College, Oxford (2009); a CEPPA Visiting Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at St Andrews University (2009); and a Visiting Scholar in the UCLA Law School (2012). In 2012, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP, 2012), and the co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (OUP, 2009). She has published on conscience, conscientious disobedience, punishment, human rights, practical reason theory, ideals, and virtue. Her current monograph focuses on the ethics of sociability and social human rights.