skinner helped to set up the women in transport (formerly women's transportation seminar) network in london in june 2005 and is now one of its patrons, having been a founding member of its board and president from 2009 to 2013. skinner also works to encourage schoolgirls into taking up stem subjects. she is a regular industry speaker, the lead author of papers on the implementation of driverless vehicles including "making better places" (2016), "new mobility now" (2017) and various prior publications on the application of digital technology to the construction industry, collaboration and innovation.