Abigail is currently the Director of Research for Newcastle University Business School. Prior to her appointment at Newcastle University, Abigail was Associate Dean of Business Engagement and Director of the DBA/DMan Programme at Stirling Management School. Abigail is currently the Consulting Editor for Work in the Global Economy and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, Work, Employment and Society and the International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management. She currently sits on the editorial boards of New Technology, Work and Employment; Team Performance Management and Leadership, Education, and Personality. 

Abigail has served on the Expert Advisory Group to the Scottish Government on New Social Security Powers and was an advisor on the 2012 Scottish Government's Mental Health Strategy, she is currently a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Future of Work. Over the past year Abigail has provided evidence to the House of Lords and Senedd Cymru on Homeworking and the Four Day Week and has been involved in the Scottish Government's Digital Ethics Expert Group. Abigail has held several externally funded research grants including a recent UKRI/ESRC funded project looking at homeworking under COVID-19 measures (www.workingathome.org.uk). Abigail is a Research Fellow with the Institute of the Future of Work.