Kathy leads the College of Business and Law learning, teaching and quality portfolio including governance, student satisfaction, program development and innovation in pedagogy. In her learning and teaching research she has published regarding blended learning, roleplay, and experiential pedagogy and video annotation.

Previously, she was the Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT. She was appointed in September 2018 and led a high performing school focussed on industry engaged learning and research. In 2020 she was awarded the Vice Chancellor's leadership award for Imagination. In 2021 she oversaw a review of learning and teaching governance in the College. For part of 2022 she was also Interim Director of Digital 3, an education aggregator that brought together digital research and education initiatives in the College.

Kathy has served on academic board and chaired the higher education committee of academic board in 2020. For many years she was an occasional chair of the University Appeals Committee. Kathy has a passion for impactful leadership that benefits students, staff and the communities that RMIT engages with, including industry.