Beatriz Kira is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Sussex and a Research Fellow in Law & Regulation at UCL’s Digital Speech Lab. Trained as a lawyer and as a social scientist, she has a PhD in Economic Law and an MSc in Social Sciences of the Internet, and has held postdoctoral positions at UCL and the University of Oxford. Her research expertise lies at the intersection of law, technology, and regulation, and her areas of interest include online safety, content moderation, food environments, digital trade, competition, and consumer protection. Beatriz is the Co-Principal Investigator of the project Platform regulation in Brazil and in the UK: designing and enforcing "duty of care" frameworks, funded by the British Academy’s ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants 2024 Programme, supported under the UK Government’s International Science Partnerships Fund.
