A/Prof Williams is a researcher and educator in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care and is a Senior Researcher at Peninsula Health. 

She maintains a small clinical role in private practice, and has adjunct research positions at University of South Australia, and Staffordshire University, UK. 

A/Prof Williams has extensive paediatric clinical experience and has previously been employed as a podiatrist in paediatric multidisciplinary teams at Monash Health and Peninsula Health.

Idiopathic toe walking

Impact and treatment of conditions affecting the lower limb

Paediatric gait and balance

Health care services research

Health care workforce research

A/Prof Williams is a practitioner member (Victoria) and Chair of the Podiatry Board of Australia. She is a past member on the Australian Government Professional Services Review Panel, past chair and now active member of the Paediatric Special Interest Group of the Australian Podiatry Association.

She has previously been the co-chair of the Peninsula Health Human Research Ethics Committee and member of Monash Health's Human Research Ethics committee and low risk human research ethics committee.