Dawn's doctoral work qualitatively examined women’s spiritual reading as a third wave feminist practice, and I used this to connect religious and secular feminisms. This became the basis for my first monograph Reading, Feminism, and Spirituality: Troubling the Waves (Palgrave, 2015) http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Reading-Feminism-and-Spirituality/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137549952

Her next book is called 'Motherhood, Voluntary Childlessness, and Christianity: Narratives of Choice' (Bloomsbury) and it explores Christian women’s reproductive choices to have children or to be childfree, and the impact this has on their religious, gendered identities.

Funded by the British Sociological Association (Sociology of Religion Study Group, she has conducted research on a service known as ‘Churching’ (Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth) in the Church of England, a project, which is funded by the ). Using participant observation and interviews, Dawn explore the mothers’ motivations for taking part, and their understandings of the ritual.

As part of her research in religion and gender, she co-founded 'The Bloomsbury Series in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality' (with Sian Hawthorne and Sonya Sharma) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bloomsbury-studies-in-religion-gender-and-sexuality/, and together they have also published 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality' (2024).