After retiring in 2001 she became Honorary Professor at King's College London, and Visiting Fellow in the Cambridge University Faculty of Education.
[4] Leone Burton's contribution to mathematics education focused on researching the practices of working mathematicians and arguing their relevance for school teaching and learning.
This research is included in what is now termed the field of ethnomathematics which examines how mathematics is related to the culture in which it is developed.
She played a major role in shifting teachers’ perceptions in relation to girls and mathematics in the UK and other places around the world.
This monograph series was subsequently renamed International Perspectives on Mathematics Education: Cognition, Equity and Society in honor of her pioneering work on equity and gender issues in mathematics education, edited by Bharath Sriraman, and published by Information Age Publishing.