Miranda Mourby

School of Law

PGR Student

m.mourby@sheffield.ac.uk
Bartolomé House

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Miranda Mourby
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Profile

Miranda Mourby is a legal researcher specialising in data protection, privacy and confidentiality, particularly within the context of biomedical data. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2025, examining privacy rights in the secondary use of health data. Before entering academic research, she qualified and practised as a barrister in England and Wales in 2014.

She subsequently spent eight years as a Researcher in Law at the Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies (‘HeLEX') at the University of Oxford, where she worked on a range of interdisciplinary projects relating to health data governance, artificial intelligence and responsible innovation. Her research interests include privacy law and the regulation of emerging technologies. She is joining the School of Law at the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in September 2026.

Qualifications
  • BA(hons) English, University of Cambridge 
Research interests
  • Data Protection Law
  • Privacy and Confidentiality Rights
  • Bioethics and Big Data
  • Alternative/Collective Forms of Governance
Teaching interests

I have taught at a postgraduate level, mostly in the form of lectures and seminars on the governance of health data.

Teaching activities

UG Teaching - Property Law

PG Teaching - Medical Law and Ethics (at the University of Oxford)

Links

LinkedIn  University of Oxford Profile