Kath Burton

Kath Burton is the founder of Radically Hopeful, a publishing strategy practice committed to building a more equitable and creative scholarly communication landscape. She spent over two decades inside academic publishing — including senior roles at Routledge, Taylor & Francis, where she shaped global humanities and social sciences programmes — and it was precisely that insider knowledge that led her out.

She watched brilliant scholars disappear into formats that flattened their ideas, and communities of researchers who had everything they needed to share their work — except a clear path forward. That gap is where Radically Hopeful began.