Alex Patrick passed her viva with minor corrections and her career is progressing well as a Lecturer at Middlesex University. She was supervised by Professor James Davey, Dr Harry Annison and Natalia Delgado and her thesis is entitled "Pay Transparency and Gender Pay Differences: Devising an Effective Regulatory Framework." Dr Patrick's research examined the use of equal pay audits to strengthen UK employers’ compliance with equal pay law.
Alex obtained her LLB at the University of Adelaide, Australia and qualified as a solicitor in New South Wales. She obtained her Master of Philosophy in Law at the University of Adelaide. Her master’s thesis examined criminal law representations of domestic violence in the UK and Australia, and proposed an alternative criminal offence of intimate partner abuse which recognises the vulnerability of victims.