I have qualitative research methodology expertise and have researched and written in the areas of child and youth cultures; gender, and 'sexualisation' debates; pedagogies, including the role of media in relationships, sexuality and health education; young people as media audiences; student and youth “voice”, citizenship and participation; creative research methods.

I was a co-investigator on a Methodological Innovation project which became Researching Everyday Childhoods: Time, Technology and Documentation in a Digital Age (Rachel Thomson, Liam Berriman, Sara Bragg 2018. London: Bloomsbury). I was also co-investigator with  Emma Renold, Jessica Ringrose and Carolyn Jackson on Young People’s Experiences of Gender for the Office of the Children’s Commissioner England.  Recently I have worked with Chris Bonell, Ruth Ponsford and the Sex Education Forum on Positive Choices, a whole-school Relationships and Sex Education programme.   I was a DfE advisor on materials to support the implementation of statutory RSE. I have also worked with Brook / CEOP on Digital Romance 2.0  on LGBTQ+ online relationships (led by Rachel Thomson at University of Sussex), as an advisor to Stonewall on their gender equity training, and to South West Grid for Learning developing RSE materials on pornography for parents, schools and students. I convened an ESRC seminar series New Practices for New Publics (2015-18) on theories of social practice and civil society. 

 I am the co-editor of the journal Children and Society.