I am a Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies and Practice at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. I hold a PhD in Education from the University of Edinburgh. I teach several courses across the BA Childhood Practice programme, where I also serve as Academic Cohort Lead for the programme. Recently, I was a Global Research Data Fellow at Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute and Research Associate for the Toddlers, Tech and Talk project at Lancaster University.
My research focuses on very young children and digital media; parental mediation; children’s digital media practices; early years; digital play; digital literacies; children’s rights; children’s rights in the digital age; children’s rights and AI; educational technologies (EdTech) and children’s rights; digital documentation in early years settings; online child sexual exploitation and abuse; qualitative research methods; digital participatory research; visual research methods; ethnography; digital ethnography; visual diary methods. I have developed a new Living Journals method - digital participatory research approach for studying children's daily lives. Drawing on my PhD data, I have co-authored article on social and cultural influences on young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan. I have also solo authored article on parental mediation - subterfuge. Also, as part of the bigger team, I have been involved in systematic review and meta analysis on the prevalence estimates and nature of online child sexual exploitation and abuse. I serve in the editorial board in the International Journal of Early Years Education, and Journal of Childhood, Education and Society.