Claire Hewson is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. She has a long standing interest in using the Internet in primary research, and has collected data online using a range of methods, including experiments, surveys and psychometrics. She regularly delivers workshops and training sessions on the topic, acted as workshop convenor and editor for the recent British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines on ethics in Internet-mediated research (2013), and has just published the fully revised 2nd edition of her co-authored book Internet Research Methods (Sage, 2016).