Anna is a Professor at Bournemouth University where she co-directs the Centre for Science, Health, and Data Communication. She is the author of Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today (Verso 2017) and CO-I on the British Academy project An Analysis of Public Assembly Rights and Anti-Riot Technology in the UK, USA, and Brazil.
Anna provides her expertise on tear gas and protest policing to a range of NGOs, journalists, and advocacy groups including Omega Research Foundation, Forensic Architecture, Amnesty International and the New York Times.