Dr Rebecca Burke | Kingston University London

Rebecca studied Philosophy at bachelor’s level in London during the late 1990’s, before spending the next two and a half decades delivering projects, programmes and portfolios across a wide range of businesses. Her career has focused on delivering change within new media companies emerging out of the technology boom in the early 2000s, before gaining an MBA with distinction in 2007, and then launching a project consultancy business in 2012.

In 2017 she discovered her own pay inequity which resulted in two tribunal court hearings which left her traumatized. Her very public story is documented through the film ‘Its Raining Women’ by Mari Soppela, which has brought countless other women and their stories, into her orbit. In 2019 she returned to academia to complete a Masters of Research before embarking on her PhD to address the knowledge gaps from across the pay inequity literature, where she adopts a feminist critical management perspective to her research which helps to shed new light on the insidious and harmful affects of sexism within post feminist contexts. Her research continues to capture women's untold experiences of work, highlighting how sexism continues to evolve, including findings that provide insights into how women have become the targets of aggressive and damaging gender washing attacks, and the lasting psychological affects that such treatment continues to have on women’s lives and careers. She is a vocal activist and supporter of all issues involving social justice for women and minority groups.