Dr Gemma Horton

Dr Gemma Horton (gemma.horton@sheffield.ac.uk), Impact Fellow, Centre for Freedom of the Media: Dr Gemma Horton works as the Impact Fellow for the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) based in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. She is also the Assistant Editor of the European Journal of Communication and the Administrator for the Young Lawyers Committee which is part of the Human Rights Lawyers Association. She holds an LLB Law degree from the University of York and an MA in Magazine Journalism from the University of Sheffield. She completed her PhD in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield where she undertook a comparative legal analysis of laws in the UK, France and US and examined how legislation and the courts balanced the right to privacy with freedom of expression in celebrity journalism cases. She worked as a University Teacher in human rights and conflict in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool from 2019-2022. Gemma's research focuses on the European Convention on Human Rights and media freedom in the United Kingdom. Her work has been published in the Journal of Media Law and Communications Law.