In 2022, Isabelle Mutton was awarded her doctorate at the University of Exeter for a thesis entitled “Holocaust Memorials in London and Ottawa: Sacred Secular Space.” This PhD project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which also provided a grant to cover postdoctoral study in 2023.

Her work has focused particularly on public Holocaust memory in the United Kingdom and Canada, drawing together scholarship on processes of memorialisation and sacralisation. In the process of this work, she conducted interviews with many of the key figures involved with the planned United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre (due to be sited next to the Houses of Parliament in central London) and the National Holocaust Monument, unveiled in Ottawa in 2017.

Isabelle has been closely involved with the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies as Conference Secretary and Postgraduate Representative, and 2019 spent four months as visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa. She is currently based in Toronto.