I am an Educational Research Consultant specializing in digital literacy and child online safety. I earned my Ph.D. in Education with dual emphases in Cognitive Science and Technology & Society in 2009 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2010-2012 I worked at the Oxford Internet Institute where I am currently a Research Associate.
At the Oxford Internet Institute, I focused on three key areas: digital literacy, information use, and online child safety. Within these fields, I contributed to the development of indicators for measuring media literacy across the EU for the European Commission, which has resulted in a practical, modular framework for national media liter...