Burdock researches ideology as it manifests within micro societies. Her work is shown in museums and galleries across the UK and New York. ​Her interests lie in observing emerging ideologies as they manifest within small social groups. Under the surface of social interaction, disparate knots and sporadic shoots of psychological intensity emerge through a collective consciousness, which are transported from person to person and group to group, finally creating wider culture. Research is based in the here and now, current affairs, the impact of religion and politics, these paintings and drawings have seen her been selected for many exhibitions and Opens ranging from the BEEP International Contemporary 2020, the Royal Soc British artists, the Chaiya Art Awards, the Neo Art Prize - Bolton Museum, to the Wells Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, the Wales Contemporary and shows in New York. In 2018 she won the annual Artist in Residence award looking at the impact of policy on the arts at Quentin Blake's Gallery, The House of Illustration. In 2019 she won the John Purcell award - Bolton Museum, selected for the Creekside Open, the Wales Contemporary, ING Discerning Eye and the Wells Contemporary Open 2019.

Whilst at the Royal College of Art She won the Gordon Peter Pickard Award and 2nd prize Sheila Robinson award.

​“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide” D.W.Winnicott