Catherine Jones’s research interests focus on the engagement of East Asian states within global institutions, with a particular interest in exploring the extent and limits of their normative power. She was the holder of British Academy and Leverhulme trust small grant which explored East Asian States approaches to Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster relief, the findings from this project are published as a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. These findings were further diseminated to a policy/practitioner audience in Bangkok in 2019 with the support of a Global Challenges Research Fund and Scottish Funding Councils grant.