Uta's research is broadly in modern European thought, culture, and politics. She is especially interested in 20th-century continental writers that seek to straddle aesthetics and the idea of the political. But she also works on the ideational and cultural dimensions of politics and policy in Europe.

Her most recent publications include the co-authored article Negotiating Brexit: The Cultural Sources of British Hard Bargaining (JCMS, 2020), and a chapter on the politics of emotions in Brexit and Beyond. Rethinking the Futures of Europe, which she co-edited with Benjamin Martill (UCL Press, 2018)

Uta's current work includes research on Arendt, Machiavelli and Jankélévitch on political virtuosity; the crisis of krisis in contemporary British politics; and the politics of mourning in theatre and theory. She has previously worked on the role culture plays for theories of citizenship; on memory cultures in urban and architectural practices; and on cultural policy in the history of European integration.