Her main research area concerns the relationship between law and various media. Current research interests include the representation of human rights law in the British and European press and the use of social media in miscarriage of justice campaigns. She is author of Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights Law (2014) (Abingdon: Routledge) and Law and the Media: The Future of an Uneasy Relationship (2008) (London: Routledge-Cavendish). She recently co-edited (with M. Bortoluzzi) Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). In January 2017, she took up a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to research ‘Coverage of human rights law in European newspapers: A comparative analysis’.