I am a socio-legal researcher and Reader in Digital Society and Justice in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology (LPS) at the University of Sussex. I'm a co-director of Sussex Digital Humanities Lab. I hold visiting research fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the civil society organisation Connected by Data.

My research focuses on public access to information, the protection and regulation of public interest journalism, and broader issues of freedom of expression. My work on media, communications and information law is interdisciplinary and uses socio-legal methods and approaches from the social sciences and humanities to understand legal and policy developments.

Recent projects have looked at the charitable funding of journalism; open justice / access to justice system data; and the protection of journalistic sources and whistleblowers. I am co-author of Observing Justice (2023, Bristol University Press, with Lucy Welsh) and co-editor of Media Power and Plurality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, with Steven Barnett), and have written for a range of academic journals and media publications.

Before joining the University of Sussex as a lecturer in 2016, I was lecturer in information law and the inaugural director of the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, within the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.

During my time there I devised and led a wide range of research activities and events, with a remit to promote and facilitate research on information law within and beyond the UK. Projects included co-ordinating a research group that undertook a review of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, running training for PhDs and early career researchers on digital and legal issues and public/policy engagement, and leading a series of events on the 'Humanity of Law' at venues including the UK Supreme Court and the Inner Temple.

I have worked as a lecturer in City University London’s department of journalism, and research associate at University of Westminster on an AHRC-funded project looking at media plurality and ownership. My doctoral research, based at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism (CLJJ) at City University London, examined defamation and privacy law and its relationship with journalistic practice in England and Wales. Prior to pursuing an academic career I worked in online journalism.