My principal research interest lies in socio-legal explorations of children's rights, particularly around human rights in education. My work has addressed issues of: human rights education; children's participation and empowerment; safeguarding; privacy; British values; children's rights literature; and media sensationalism around human rights in the UK.

More recently, I have also worked on legal education with young people, particularly in the context of widening access to legal education and the profession. A number of my recent publications in this area have related to the hugely successful outreach project, School Tasking, that I started at Warwick in 2022 and that now runs at 35 universities across the UK and Ireland.

My 2020 monograph, Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools: Overcoming the barriers to effective practice (Routledge) focuses on Human Rights Education in English primary education, utilising quantitative and qualitative empirical research methods to better understand the reasons for deficiencies in current practices in this area.