She is a Professor in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. Her teaching and research focus on parliamentary politics and government, public sector ethics, and democratic health and reform. She is a frequent commentator on CBC, CTV, and Global news networks, is a contributing writer to Policy magazine, and a member of the board at the Parliamentary Centre. From 2015 to 2017, she was seconded to the Privy Council Office, first as a policy adviser in the Machinery of Government Secretariat, then as departmental liaison to the Office of the Minister of Democratic Institutions, and finally as a policy adviser at the Priorities and Planning Secretariat. She is the co-author of Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government, which won the Donner Prize and the Donald Smiley Prize.