Britta is a Research Fellow in the Tobacco Control Research Group. She is interested in the commercial determinants of health and how commercial actors influence policy and what is, and can be, done about it. Most of her ongoing research focuses on tobacco industry interference in policymaking, and the role of tobacco control advocacy. She also works on intimidation in tobacco control and other areas of public health.

Britta holds a PhD in Social and Policy Sciences from the University of Bath, UK and is an alumna of the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Public Policy.

Britta has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students for over five years at Bath and at The University of Nottingham, covering areas including policy analysis, power, social theory and social research methods. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE).

She is also a Certified NVivo (Lumivero) Expert and regularly runs sessions on qualitative research and NVivo through the Doctoral College.

Britta is a member of the Biomedical Science Research Ethics Committee and an Associate Editor of Health Promotion International. She served as the Co-Chair of the Research Staff Working Group (2023-2025).