Research Associate at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership, King's College London
Laura is a Research Associate at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership where her research focuses on understanding the barriers and facilitators to women's progression in the workplace, and the factors leading to negative perceptions of female leaders. Prior to that she was a Research Associate at the Policy Institute at King's College London working across a range of areas, including improving women's representation in engineering education. Beyond the Institute she sits on the board of the Orwell Society.
Before moving into research she worked as a producer in broadcast journalism and documentary, working on programmes such as Panorama and Dispatches.
To solve the gender pay gap we need to radically rethink what a job looks like
May 02, 2019 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The introduction of gender pay gap reporting has highlighted the continued gap in pay between men and women. While it is by no means a perfect metric, the very exercise of collecting this data has focused minds in the...
Research shows four in five experts cited in online news are men
Jul 20, 2018 07:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
Who gets to speak? Who do we listen to? And whose opinions do we respect? These questions are always important, but even more so now, as the UK faces an uncertain future, and political leaders need to make some tough...
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