Rebecca Clifford was born in Canada, but moved to Britain in 2003 to carry out doctoral research at the University of Oxford. She completed a DPhil in Modern History at St. Antony's College in 2008. She subsequently held a Junior Research Fellowship at Worcester College, before taking up a lectureship in the History and Classics Department at Swansea University. Since 2008, she has been a contributor to a major collaborative oral history project on 1968 in Europe funded by the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust; the team's collectively-authored book, Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt was also published by OUP.