Bauduin is currently closely involved in the development of a new dMA specialization in Provenance and Restitution Research (start: September 2023). Her main research field is Surrealism; current research projects focus on: global Surrealism, for instance in the Dutch Caribbean and Indonesia; the decolonization of museum collections, especially modern(ist) collections, with the use of surrealist anticolonial theory and art practice; and provenance of surrealist and related collections and works. Bauduin also works on the interaction of modern art and occultism in the long twentieth century, and several of her publications concern the artist Hilma af Klint.

In 2015 Bauduin was awarded a 4-year VENI research grant from the Dutch Research Council in its Talent Programme, for a project focussing on the reception of early modern European art in Surrealism, in relation to processes of canonisation and appropriation. In 2016 Bauduin was Visiting Fellow at Coventry University. She has been a member of the Board of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism since 2022. Bauduin has been invited to the Edinburgh College of Art as Visiting Professor for 2023.