Francesca Farmer is a research associate on the LAWREG project.

She recently completed her ESRC funded PhD ‘Cybercrime vs hacktivism: do we need a differentiated regulatory approach?’ at the University of Exeter based within the political science department. This research project involved analysing the legal mechanisms in both the UK and Europe to manage cybercrime. She is interested in cybercrime, hacktivism, online harms and data privacy.