Caoimhe researches intellectual property, industrial policy, and science and technology studies. Her current research focuses on climate-friendly industrial policy and access to knowledge and technology in climate extremes.

Prior to joining the University of Bristol Law School, Caoimhe pursued a DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford. During this time, she was an Associate Editor at the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal as well as co-convenor of the Intellectual Property Law Discussion Group and the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Discussion Group (2021–2023). She has held posts including as a Principal Investigator on access to climate-friendly technologies in lower-income nations (2022-23), as a Tutor in Contract Law at Merton College, University of Oxford (2022), as an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University (2022), and as a research assistant to Professor Emily Hudson (King’s College London) on Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action (Cambridge University Press 2019). She has contributed to Politico (2022), and various calls for views, including the UK Intellectual Property Office call for views on artificial intelligence (2020 & 2021). Caoimhe read law at King's College London (2016-2019).