Professor Burd is the leader member of the Technology Enhanced Learning Group. She is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, Member of the American Educational Research Association and Member of the European Association of Research into Learning and Instruction

She teaches human-computer interaction and project managment at undergraduate level and software engineering at MSc level. She supervises PhD students and would be interested in taking on postgraduate students with research interests in technology enhanced learning.

She is a Guest Editor on a Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) on Development, Evaluation and Deployment of Multi-touch Systems.