Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Law School benefits from one of the largest concentrations of researchers specialising in Media, IT and IP law in the UK.
Research into this relatively new and ever expanding field of the law includes work on the human rights and privacy aspects of internet law, the impact of social media on culture and law and patents and unfair competition. Researchers in this field collaborate actively with specialists from other Schools within UEA, as well as with researchers from other universities and with official agencies such as the Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
media@uea is for research relating to media at UEA, where our researchers work with colleagues from other Schools, including Film, Television and Media Studies, Political, Social and International Studies, Economics, International Development, Languages and Communication Studies, and Literature, Drama and Creative Writing. In April 2014 media@uea and the Law School jointly hosted the annual BILETA Conference at UEA.
The Centre for Creativity, Enterprise Regulation and Technology (CREATe) was established in 2012 and is the RCUK centre for copyright and new business models in the creative economy. A consortium of seven universities including UEA and led by University of Glasgow, CREATe actively explores cutting-edge questions around digitisation, copyright, and innovation in the arts and technology and draws on expertise across UEA. Professor Morten Hviid is a member of the IPO's Unregistered Rights Expert Advisory Group.
For more information on media-related research and media law research at UEA generally please visit the CREATe web pages.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Paul Bernal
- School of Law - Professor of Information Technology Law
- Media, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching and Research
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Elias Deutscher
- School of Law - Honorary Associate Professor
- Centre for Competition Policy - Member
- Competition, Markets and Regulation - Member
- Media, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law - Member
Person: Honorary, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member
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Holly Hancock
- School of Law - Associate Professor in Tort Law
- Media, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law - Member
Person: Academic, Teaching and Scholarship, Research Group Member
Projects
- 23 Finished
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Public understandings of protest law
Mead, D. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/23 → 31/01/25
Project: Research
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Tracking Timeliness, Transparency, and Trustworthiness: An assessment of the impact of Covid-19 on UK freedom of information laws as an accountability mechanism - Looking back, Looking forward
Mc Cullagh, K. (Principal Investigator)
1/08/23 → 31/03/25
Project: Internal Funding › AHRC IAA Fund
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The Distributional Effects of Gas Price Volatility and Potential Policy Mitigations
Ennis, S. (Principal Investigator), Burlinson, A. (Co-Investigator), Deller, D. (Co-Investigator) & Harker, M. (Co-Investigator)
1/11/22 → 30/04/24
Project: Research
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Accelerating innovation and strengthening digital governance-BILETA 2025 special edition
Mc Cullagh, K. (Guest editor), Barker, K. (Guest editor) & Vanberg, A. (Guest editor), 9 Apr 2026, In: International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. p. 1 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Adequacy maintained: The Commission’s assessment of UK data protection, post-DUAA
Mc Cullagh, K., 4 Mar 2026, In: Privacy & Data Protection . 26, 4, p. 13-16 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Freedom of information and the public interest test: Supreme court sanctions aggregation of qualified exemptions
Mc Cullagh, K., 21 Jul 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Cambridge Law Journal. 85, 1, p. 6-9 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Prizes
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Appointment as Secretary of British & Irish Law, Education & Technology Association
Mc Cullagh, K. (Recipient), Apr 2021
Prize: Appointment
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Appointment as Treasurer of British & Irish Law, Education & Technology Association
Mc Cullagh, K. (Recipient), Apr 2023
Prize: Appointment
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Reviewer Certificate: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2024)
Mc Cullagh, K. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Other distinction
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Activities
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Invited to take part in Manuscript workshop - Defending Protest: The Criminal Trials of Social Movement Activists Hayes et al at York
Mead, D. (Participant)
8 Jul 2026Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Measure of research esteem: Invited to judge annual HRLA Young Lawyers essay on free speech and misinformation
Mead, D. (Participant)
Jul 2026Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Participant in UEA policy impact peer network
Mead, D. (Participant)
3 Jun 2026Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press/Media
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Quoted in: Britain rolls back controversial tracking of legal social media posts
1/04/26
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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The Conversation: Palestine Action: why the High Court ruled against the government, and what it means for the future of protest
18/02/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blog
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Quoted in this FT news item: "Palestine Action enters legal twilight zone after landmark court ruling"
13/02/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution