Odette's main subject area is French language teaching. Her research interests are in technology enhanced language learning and in education for sustainable development. She is currently member of a research team investigating Higher Education students' perception of and motivation for language learning. She co-created the #LanguagesPathways platform for the promotion of foreign languages in TU Dublin (2022). Since 2020, she is an active member of the TU Dublin Sustainable Literacy Community of Practice and has since become a champion of Education for Sustainable Development in language teaching and learning. During 2021-2022, she co-led the preparatory work for the development of an immersive platform for the European Universities of Technology alliance. From 2018 to 2020, she was a Teaching Fellow on the Co-Create Project aimed at developing a new curriculum framework for TU Dublin.  As well as co-producing an OER for French grammar (2015-2018), she has contributed to a National Forum funded OER (2015-2017), Digilanguages, an online portal aimed at enhancing digital literacies for language learning and teaching. A number of her publications can be found on her ORCID profile.

Second language acquisition, Computer assisted language learning, Sustainability literacy