Her current research projects focus young people’s practices of digital self-representation, and the role of user-generated media (including social networking platforms) in young people’s formal and informal sexual learning. Kath currently leads the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation’s ‘Health Narratives’ node. Since 2001, she has been a Chief Investigator on four ARC Discovery projects, and has lead an ARC Centre of Excellence project, and an ARC Linkage project. Her research has involved collaborations with a range of government and non-government organisations including the NSW Health Department, the AIDS Council of NSW, Family Planning NSW and Queensland, and Rape and Domestic Violence Services, Australia. Kath is a co-author of The Porn Report (MUP, 2008).