As Browne Jacobson’s Social Mobility lead, Victoria supports social mobility within the firm and beyond. Her work includes outreach, recruitment, training, inclusion and advocacy. A professional communications and social mobility expert, Victoria’s career has focused on improving workplace experiences for people from under-represented backgrounds.
Victoria’s experience spans the legal sector and academic research with real-world impact. Victoria qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and worked in large international firms before making the move into teaching law and gaining a PhD in Sociolinguistics. She has spent the last eight years supporting diverse organisations across the public and private sectors to build fairer, more productive and happier workplaces. She is passionate about good communication that makes everyone feel valued and included.
Victoria is a regular public speaker at industry, academic, outreach and student events. A recent career highlight has been giving oral evidence on social mobility to the Women and Equalities Committee in the House of Commons. Victoria has recently led the firm’s brand new mentoring programme for care leavers and co-created ground-breaking accent and socioeconomic background bias training, with University of Nottingham. Her work aims to raise awareness of the impact of “class” bias on entry to, and progression within, workplaces.
Victoria is a mentor supporting people into fulfilling careers and volunteers in grassroots cricket.