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Clara Pennock obtained a masters degree at Nottingham University. She started her PhD in October 2018, exploring the populations of galaxies behind the Magellanic Clouds, in particular extreme types of active galaxies. She won a place on the NEON Observing School at Asiago (Padova) and on the Canary Islands Winterschool, joined a VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds consortium meeting in Cambridge, won a Newton-Bhabha student placement in Bangalore (India) where she spent two months working on Astrosat/UVIT data and public engagement supported also by a Royal Astronomical Society Astronomy for Development grant, and she won nearly four weeks of observing time at the South African Astronomical Observatory's 1.9m telescope while also using the 11m Southern African Large Telescope). She also attended an International Astronomical Union symposium on active galaxies in Ethiopia. She published the most sensitive radio continuum survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud and a machine learning discovery of active galaxies dominated by nuclear dust emission. Already before graduating, Clara moved to a postdoctoral position at the University of Edinburgh.