My book The Copyright Enforcement Enigma - Internet politics and the 'Telecoms Package' will be published in October by Palgrave Macmillan.  If you are interested, please  click through the link for more information, including a contents list.   

I am working on a second book which will discuss copyright enforcement politics in the Member States, including the UK's Digital Economy Act. It  also has a chapter on ACTA and the EU politics. 

I will be available in 2012 for other research projects and presentations. Please contact me if you would like to discuss this further. 

 I am happy to say that I successfully defended  my PhD thesis - entitled The Political Battle for Online Content in the European Union - on 7 September 2010, with no corrections.

I researched my PhD at  the University of Westminster  Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), where I was a self-funded student. I have presented aspects of my research in Berlin, Washington and Brussels, including in  the European Parliament. The details of these presentations are in the pages under 'Presentations'.  I've written a paper based on my PhD  research which is published  by the American University,  Washington College of Law (see Published Work).

I have a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University (ANU), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.  In 2006, I obtained a Masters Degree with Distinction, in Communications Policy, from the University of Westminster.

I have a long and varied career behind me. Some readers  may remember me from my days as an IT and telecoms  journalist, reporting on matters that are now regarded as 'historical', such as the liberalisation of UK telecoms in the 1980s.   I've been able to retrieve some of my old articles, and you will see them in the pages under 'Published Work'.  I'm delighted to say that my first published work as an academic writer also appears in this section. 

I launched iptegrity.com at the end of 2007 as an online cv with a blog. The blog has been more successful than I imagined. Entitled 'Policy Matters', my blog  gets thousands of readers every month,  and it has built  iptegrity.com into a publication which is influential  in policy circles.  Policy Matters  is read  in Europe,  the US, Russia, Japan and Australia.    Articles on iptegrity.com have even inspired questions in the European Parliament!

Iptegrity.com is cited by academics and scholars - see ' My  Citations,' and by media - see 'Media Quotes'. 

Iptegrity.com  does not receive funding from any organisations and is entirely produced by me. It  is released under a Creative Commons non-commercial  licence.  I am grateful to those who have referenced it, and would respectfully ask everyone who benefits from it to acknowledge the Creative Commons licence with the correct citation. It is only by giving such acknowledgements  that the Creative Commons licences have any meaning.

If you would like to use any of the material commercially, or in the course of your business, please contact me.