 In 2014, Kay Frances Danes was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for social justice and human rights work  The same year, she left the workforce in Saudi Arabia to complete a Master of Human Rights degree online through Curtin University (WA), and to also take advantage of the travel opportunities of the Middle East.There appears to be no readily accessible details of Kay Danes's undergraduate studies.Danes relocated to Australia in January 2015 and commenced a PhD (Law and Justice), researching how incidents of harm from major attacks have impacted Australian humanitarian workers in armed conflict.