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Palmer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018 for “substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge”. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2009, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). She was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) in 1996.

Palmer has initiated work on a second type of protein transporter– the Type VII secretion system (T7SS) in the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Her group have demonstrated for the first time that the T7SS is involved in interbacterial competition by showing that the S. aureus T7SS secretes a large nuclease toxin, which inhibits the growth of closely related S. aureus strains.

Palmer was born in Sheffield on 8 May 1967, the only child of Enid (née Wilson) and Roy Palmer (a steelworker). Palmer was brought up in the steel town of Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire where she attended Stocksbridge High School. Palmer attended the University of Birmingham where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry in 1988 followed by a PhD in 1992 for research investigating the enzyme kinetics of the proton pumping transhydrogenase from photosynthetic bacteria. She was inspired by the work of Peter D. Mitchell and his work on chemiosmosis during her PhD.