I am Professor of Gender and Culture at Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures. My research is concerned with how gender and affect circulate in digital and postfeminist cultures.

My academic career spans over a decade of teaching, publishing, and collaborating on major interdisciplinary and international research projects funded by the AHRC, ESRC, the British Academy/Leverhulme, and The Royal Society, New Zealand. I am co-author of Technologies of Sexiness and Digital Feeling with Sarah Riley, and co-author of Postfeminism and Body Image and Postfeminism and Health, with Sarah and Martine Robson. I have published widely in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Social Media + Society, and the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

With Jessica Ringrose, I am co-founder of the Postdigital Intimacies network. Our edited collection, Postdigital Intimacies: Relational Lives in the Networked Public-Private (co-edited with Jamie Hakim, Amy Shields-Dobson and Shaka McGlotten) will be published by UCL Press in 2026.

My current book project is provisionally titled Good Vibes Only: Positivity in Digital Culture (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic).

At the heart of my work is a commitment to making feminist theory matter—academically, culturally, and politically—through developing new ways of thinking about digital culture and by seeking to stimulate more inclusive, equitable and feminist-inspired ways of being in the world.

My research is inspired by a deep interest in the way gender organises personal, social, intimate and cultural relationships, and how these relationships are shaped and reflected in media culture. Through my research, I hope to create new ways of thinking about these links and the way they can stimulate more positive, inclusive and feminist-inspired identities.