research
I started as a full-time postgraduate research student in January 2006. I had a review interview / transfer report in July 2007, so it’s full steam ahead to PhD some time in the future 
What I’ve done so far:
- I did some work on languages and the Internet; the result was a paper presented at the 10th annual conference of the International Academy of Linguistic Law (IALL). An earlier version of this work was presented at the Dublin Legal Workshop.
- I visited Toronto on a research trip (July 2006), focusing on Canadian approaches to media systems, and basing myself in the University of Toronto. I carried out a number of interviews; the material is making its way into my thesis. Expenses were supported by the Northern Telecom Canadian Studies Scholarship at TCD
- August 2006, I participated in a panel at the UACES European Studies conference in Limerick, Ireland. Our panel was about EU media law; my paper was entitled “Web Media: Without Frontiers, Without Borders, or Without Law?” - “download it here - and my TCD colleagues Sinéad O’Loghlin and Ewa Komorek also presented.
- In September, I was at the GikII workshop and Computer Law conference (both in Edinburgh), and then in November, at the first meeting of the UACES Specialist Study Group (hosted by the University of Leeds).
- In May 2007, I presented a paper at the Osgoode Hall Graduate Law Students Conference in Toronto, Ontario. Download it here.Later that month, I attended the ONI filtering conference in Oxford.
- In July 2007, I attended the Summer Doctoral Programme at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard Law School), and gave a presentation.
- In September 2007, I gave a paper at the annual conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, in the ‘Cyberlaw’ subject section. Download it here.
You can get a fairly good idea of what I’m interested in through the del.icio.us feed in the sidebar. Feel free to email me at the address supplied, especially if you are researching in this area!