Moira is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, where she also leads on Knowledge Exchange and Engagement for the School. She is Public and Community Engagement Lead for the Faculty of Social Sciences. She was Co-Investigator on the ESRC project, Negotiating Queer Identities Following Forced Migration: A Comparative Study of Iranian Queer Refugees Living in Turkey, the UK and Canada (NQIfFM). Moira joined the University of Sussex as a Research Fellow in 2016 working on the European Research Council project SOGICA - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge (2016-2020). 

In 2021, Moira launched Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) with Christel Querton (University of the West of England). The network brings together asylum claiming and refugee women, senior and early career scholars, practitioners, policymakers and activists from around the globe to re-centre the study of refugee women within refugee law, policy and practice.

Moira is also a tutor and module convenor on the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies programme at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

Before joining the University of Sussex, Moira was Director of Research and Communications at the Equality and Diversity Forum, a network of equality and human rights organisations, where she coordinated the Equality and Diversity Forum Research Network. Moira has also worked at the Refugee Council, providing advice and information and developing national services for refugees and asylum-seekers. She has worked as a freelance sub-editor on the Guardian and Independent newspapers and was the Information Worker for the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age.

She has a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics.