 Lane subsequently undertook a DPhil at the University of Oxford, after which she spent three years as a postdoctoral research assistant on the RESET Project.In 2012 Lane was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, looking at the tephra records of East African changing environments, during which she moved from RLAHA to the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester.She was awarded the Professor of Geography (1993) chair and moved to the University of Cambridge in 2016.