Kathleen Burt, Ph.D.

Kathleen is WorldKind's Director of Institutional Research & Client Services and heads their accessibility initiatives. She obtained a PhD from the University of St. Andrews in Jewish and early church ritual, developing a keen interest in the first-century world and passing on that passion to the undergraduates she taught during that time. 

While studying, she found herself drawn to issues of institutional operations and organizational ethics. So, after graduation she worked in Disability Rights and equity policy, including co-productive research exploring intersectional discrimination among service users. Kathleen serves on a consultative panel bringing the experience of disability-related public policy to the Scottish Government and just finished working in lived experience research for an inclusion project at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland.

She has done this while also writing about her passion for accessible travel at WanderingWounded.com. She has contributed to Oxford Biblical Studies Online, served on the editorial board of the Considering Disability journal based at the University of Leeds, and studied Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Public Policy. 

In 2022, she began studying Instructional Design & Online Learning Development with IDOL Academy and has used those newfound skills to help enhance WorldKind's "Traveler Trainer PROgram." Last year while attending the Forum on Education Abroad's Institute on Health, Safety, Security and Risk Management, she chaired a panel presentation on "Using Scenario-based learning and Storytelling for Travel Health & Safety Training.”

Kathleen is often found exploring local supermarkets in exotic locations or purchasing handicrafts with a carefree attitude towards her luggage dimensions. Her patient husband recognized that this was an integral part of her life when he spent seven of the first ten weeks of their relationship waiting for her to re-enter the same time zone. She loves gardening, learning languages, planning (travel, weddings, wildly improbable dream kitchens), and acting as a human butler to the small fluffy dog whose house she inhabits. She is on a mission to taste test all the baklava the Eastern Mediterranean has to offer.

You can reach her at kathleen@worldkindlearning.com.