She has degrees in Literature, International Relations, and Politics. Her research spans the sociologies of politics, crime, law, violence, knowledge and science, and is best characterised as theoretically-driven empirical research. Drawing on atrocities and their redress as an empirical backdrop, her research has engaged with broad topics such as the nation, justice, and human rights. Specific topics she has written on include transitional justice, political forgiveness, reparations, war trauma, humanitarianism, human rights reporting, and science (forensics) and human rights.