From 1993 to the present Barrow-Green has worked at the Open University, receiving a professorship in 2015. From 2003 to 2005 she was president of the
British Society for the History of Mathematics. From 2007 to 2018 she was an elected member of the Council of the
London Mathematical Society and during that period she served as the Librarian for the society. In 2014 Barrow-Green was awarded the first Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence for her article
An American Goes to Europe: Three Letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914 in
The Mathematical Intelligencer. In 2018 she took part in a discussion panel on
The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective at the
International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, Rio de Janeiro, which was chaired by the English mathematician
Caroline Series and also featured the French mathematician
Marie-Françoise Roy and the Argentine physicist
Silvina Ponce Dawson. She chairs the executive committee of the
International Commission on the History of Mathematics. In August 2021
The Royal Society awarded her its
Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal "for her research in 19th & 20th century mathematics, with emphasis on the underrepresentation of women in historical narratives & contemporary mathematics". == Selected publications ==