Dr Holly Powell-Jones

  • Founder of Online Media Law UK

  • Designing & delivering training since 2013

  • PhD awarded by City, University of London

  • Online Law Leader for the GEC

  • VCPB award winner in 2020

See ‘About’ page for more on Holly’s experience

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Welcome to Online Media Law UK

What?

Training, resources, and consultancy for professionals, universities and schools in the UK.

Designed to help users to navigate online and digital environments confidently and safely.

Raising awareness of the criminal, legal, reputational, and ethical risks accompanying the digital age.

Why?

Everyone deserves to have a basic understanding of the law, and how it applies in a digital context.

Many social media users remain unaware of laws that apply to digital communications or publishing content online.

Awareness of our legal rights and responsibilities is essential to using technologies in a safe, legal and ethical way.

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Education &

Training

Workshops, online courses, video training, and classes…

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Research & Academia

Conference presentations, publications and lecturing…

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Projects &

Consultancy

Collaborations and client commissioned work…

“I highly recommend Holly as a trainer and an expert in media law.

Her training covered an astounding array of areas in just two hours, including ethics and legal issues during news investigations, avoiding libel and legal issues in writing up your story, and the new legal and ethical challenges posed by social media.”
— Sarah Cheverton, Editor-in-chief at Star and Crescent News
 

A quick selection of highlights from events and media relating to Online Media Law UK.

 
 

Professionals

Short courses and masterclasses to help individuals and staff teams to develop their digital skills for their workplace.

Includes: Online media law basics, writing for the web & social media, and building your online profile.

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Schools

Student assemblies, learning resources, teacher training, and parents evenings to help schools support their pupils in the digital age.

Informed by academic expertise on youth perceptions of social media risk and several years of experience.

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Universities

Staff & student bespoke workshops to manage professional social media use, plus consultancy on institutional digital policies.

Academic lectures on media law, journalism, social media, criminology, and digital victimology.

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