The Technology, Internet, and Policy Specialist Group (TIP) is an international network of academics, practitioners, campaigners, journalists, and others with an interest in technology, the internet, and policy. The group seeks to promote academic engagement in policy debates and discourse that impact civil society, in particular by facilitating the exchange of ideas between academia and practitioners from various fields.

The role was part of the Localizing Content Governance, a systematic study into how Administrators and Moderators govern contributions in Facebook Groups relating to named places (e.g. villages, towns, neighbourhoods). Local Facebook Groups are comparatively open forms of neighbourhood-based social media, in which users can create, join and contribute to multiple Groups, tied to different geographical scales or topics. Such Groups are popular and growing: some have thousands of members with hundreds of daily contributions. While they can be vibrant arenas of constructive local discourse, local Facebook Groups also often host polarised exchanges, harmful content and even the possibility of offline harm. Focusing on 16 active place-named Facebook Groups in and around London, UK, this study will combine qualitative and data analytics approaches towards an original and focused analysis of how Administrators and Moderators govern content. This project is funded by a grant from Facebook Research.

I was elected as the ECN’s Communication Officer in 2019. Responsible for the communications output of the Network, recruitment of new members, and managing inquiries from the membership. Also responsible for the implementation of the ECN’s 2020 & 21 virtual conferences, organisation of the keynote speaker (Pippa Norris), and conference site development. In this role, we delivered the most well received and attended ECN conference to date, alongside a record number of ECN members (600+).

Planning, designing, and delivering teaching across a range of undergraduate courses. With class sizes ranging from 15 to 48. As student engagement officer - I create, monitor, and engage with university-owned social media groups. My approach has increased student engagement and led to earlier identification of pastoral care needs.

Research and creation of digital marketing strategies (online advertising, social); and internal research reports which were commissioned by large organisations including NHS, Sainsbury’s and E.ON.

Parliamentary Assistant to the Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP.