Sophie Maddocks

Sophie Maddocks is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. She is broadly interested in cyber civil rights, gender and sexuality, youth media literacy, and popular culture. Her current research explores individual, organizational, and legislative responses to online gender-based violence.

Maddocks holds an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Public Engagement where she was a Fulbright Scholar; a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Warwick; and a B.A. in Politics, Psychology, and Sociology from the University of Cambridge.

Before joining the Annenberg School, she held various teaching and advocacy roles in the U.K. public school system.