Dr Henrietta Catley

Henrietta is a Lecturer at Leeds Law School, with research interests in politics as well as media and public law. Prior to joining Leeds Beckett University, she worked as a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield. She was part of a team of researchers working on the European Media and Information Fund Project ‘Unreliable Science: Unravelling the Impact of Mainstream Media Misrepresentation’. Her research focussed on the legal and regulatory mechanisms addressing scientific mis and disinformation. In 2025, Henrietta obtained her PhD from Durham University, with her thesis exploring the legal and regulatory framework surrounding deception in politics. Prior to this, she studied law at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of York. She holds a first-class Law degree and a Legal and Political Theory LLM at grade Distinction.