Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University where she leads the Language and Literacy in Education Research Group. Her research interests focus on relationships between technology, literacy and education. A previous editor of Literacy, she has published widely in the areas of literacy, technology and education, including the co-edited collections New Literacies around the Globe: policy and pedagogy (2014), Literacy, Media, Technology: past, present and future (2017) and The case of the iPad: Mobile literacies in education (2017).  She is President Elect of the United Kingdom Literacy Association.