Caron completed her undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia and then moved to Loughborough University where she graduated with an MSc in Recreation Management. She pursued a career as a practitioner working in the areas of sport facility management, sports development, and sports regeneration. This included various roles within local authorities in Leicestershire, working as a Senior Regional Officer for Sport England in the East Midlands, and leading the work of the Braunstone Sport Action Zone embedded into the Braunstone New Deal for Communities Programme, the most deprived community in the East Midlands in the early 2000s.
From 2008 onwards Caron worked as an independent researcher before returning to Loughborough in 2013 to undertake her doctoral thesis which was completed in 2017 (The role of selected football projects in implementing sports programmes for young people living in deprived areas supervised by Professor Barrie Houlihan). Caron then joined the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences as a part-time Research Associate, and took on the additional part-time role of University Teacher in 2021.
Caron specialises in research into the prevention and reduction of serious youth violence through sport. She also teaches on several Sport Management undergraduate and master’s modules including Critical Perspectives of Sport (Part A), Sport Law, Equity and Inclusion (Part B), Sport Policy and Governance (Part C), Sport and International Development (MSc) and Research Methods (MSc) in addition to supervising both undergraduate and master’s students’ research projects and doctoral researchers.