 During 2000–01, she curated the Royal Museum exhibition "Heaven and Hell – and other Worlds of the Dead" and in 2016 she curated "Jade from the Alps" in the National Museum of Scotland.She has an extensive publication record and is perhaps best known for her model of the multi-strand Neolithisation of Britain and Ireland.Sheridan was awarded the 2018 British Academy Grahame Clark Medal for outstanding work in prehistoric archaeology.