Professor Perry is responsible for oversight of research within the Chemistry and Forensic Science team; she supervises undergraduate projects in chemistry and forensics and postgraduate (Masters level and PhD) in chemistry and bioscience at its interface with chemistry.

Professor Perry was a Wolfson Research Merit awardee from 2013-2017.

Professor Perry's research is focussed towards understanding what happens at the interface between biomolecules and materials and how this affects propertie.