She is a patron of the National Osteoporosis Society and was invited by the IOF to sit on the Women leaders panel in Brussels in 2008. She is also a patron of the Daphne Jackson Trust helping scientists, engineers and technologists return to work after a career break. She was a Lay Council Member of the University of Warwick. In February 2015 she became patron of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing. She was a board member of the Children's Media Foundation and a panel member of the Haringey STEM Commission.