Dr Evenden-Kenyon holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of York, where she also studied Literature, Languages and Linguistics as an undergraduate. She undertook her MA in Forensic Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. She was certified in Public Policy Design and Delivery at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is an established author in academic, government, and fictional writing. She has also worked extensively as an editor in both academic and government arenas. After more than two decades as a full-time academic, Dr Evenden-Kenyon is now a part-time academic at Oxford, and splits her time between this and work as a Chartered Management Consultant, working with and advising the British Government.

Dr Evenden-Kenyon’s academic career started at the University of Cambridge, where she taught Politics, Religion, and Economics in the History Faculty. She was also a don at Newnham College, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow there. In 2012 she was awarded a prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship by the European Commission, we saw her take a professorship at Harvard University, as Principal Investigator of a large project on Conflict, Coalition and the Press, examining the history of how the media manipulates public opinion in accordance with the needs of the state. 

Dr Evenden-Kenyon returned to the UK to take up a post at the University of Oxford in the department of Medieval and Modern Languages, and also took up a Fellowship at Ushaw College at the University of Durham. During this phase of her career, her analysis of government ‘spin’ saw her researching this political language across Portugal, Spain, and France, as well as the UK. As her academic career began to blend with government policy, Dr Evenden-Kenyon moved into work as a forensic linguist. She continues to work with students at all levels of their academic journey, advising others on how to move into and out of different study and employment opportunities, utilising their critical thinking skills.