Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Harmful behaviours (including harmful sexual behaviours) among young people
- Issues of consent
- Law reform in the area of sexual offences
- Responses to youth based harmful behaviours
- Youth Justice
Public outreach & key achievements
- Produced a policy briefing paper from an ESRC funded project on young people and sexual consent in Northern Ireland (specifically within the context of ‘sexting’); distributed to key stakeholders: http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/sexting-consent-young-people-regulatory-challenges/
- Published a short blog in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/teenage-sexting-were-letting-young-people-down-by-not-talking-about-it-107054
- Keynote speaker at Nexus NI Annual Conference (2023)
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