She is a prominent PR and communication scholar who has actively contributed to the so-called “socio-cultural turn” in PR. She is co-editor of the Public Relations Inquiry journal, which takes up the mission of culturally sensible and economically and politically critical PR. Her recent books are (2015, with B. Klein and G. Moss) Understanding copyright: Intellectual property in the digital age, London, SAGE; (2014) Power, diversity and public relations, London, Routledge; and (2011 with C. Hodges) Public relations, society and culture: Theoretical and empirical explorations, London, Routledge.