Her research is positioned at the intersection of communication, information science and human computer interaction, largely focusing on big data, information privacy, social networks and relational practice. Current projects consider privacy, interactions with data, online information disclosure and data leakage on mobile devices working to address the sense of powerlessness people often experience in the face of massive personal data collection. She is the coordinator for the EU Horizon 2020 project VIRT-EU, which examines how IoT developers enact ethics in practice in order to design interventions into the IoT development process to support ethical reflection on data and privacy in the EU context.