Currently writing up her thesis.
Catherine's work approach is to include girls from across the classes. This involves looking at industrial, elementary and secondary schools. This has included new research using school logbooks from public and private archives, school magazines and annual reports. Archive material has been supplemented with newspaper articles, maps and census returns to build pictures of girls' backgrounds, the educations they undertook and what they went on to do.
Throughout her doctoral studies, Catherine has presented at conferences both in the UK and abroad. This included the 2018 and 2019 International Standing Conference (ISCHE) on the History of Education in Berlin and Porto respectively. At Porto, she also chaired a panel. Catherine has given papers at the History of Education UK conference. Further UK conferences at which she has presented include 2018's Education, Women and Suffrage International Perspectives conference held at Royal Holloway, wherein she looked at pupil engagement in the suffrage debate at a girls' school in Guildford and the Children's History Society conference at the University of Greenwich, where her paper addressed ideas concerning movement in an industrial school. How girls occupied space was addressed in a paper delivered at the University of Winchester for the Geographies of Gender conference in 2019.
