Dr William Page joined Birmingham Law School as a Teaching Fellow in September 2025. Alongside his teaching within the School of Law, he also teaches on the MA Digital Media and Creative Industries programme within the School of English, Drama and Creative Studies.
William completed his PhD in Law from the University of Reading in 2026, funded by a 1+3 Economic Social Research Council studentship, through a doctrinal training partnership with the Southeast Network for Social Sciences. His doctoral research examined the regulation of live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance technology and how differing legal frameworks governing the police and private sector impacted the ability to access different public spaces. As part of his studentship, William completed an MRes in Law & Society (2020–2021), graduating with the highest overall grade across the Master's cohort in the School of Law. In 2020, he graduated from the University of Reading with a First Class LLB (Hons) in Law and was awarded the School of Law Prize for the best overall performance during the final year of study.
Before joining Birmingham, William held positions as Associate Lecturer and Lecturer at St Mary's University, Twickenham (2024), where he convened modules in Contract Law, Property Law, and International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law. He also taught as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Reading (2021–2022), where he was nominated by students for a Teaching Excellence Award.
William's research interests sit at the intersection of emerging technologies and the law, with a particular focus on facial recognition, surveillance, policing and private security, and the regulation of artificial intelligence. His work has informed policy debate: he contributed to the Civil Justice Council's Report on Digital Disadvantage (2025) and has presented his research at national and international conferences. He also writes for broader audiences, regularly publishing on the Birmingham Law School Research and Scholarship Blog. In addition, in 2023, he was the youngest PhD researcher to have presented their research at the University of Reading’s prestigious Fairbrother lecture, where one PhD student from across the University is selected to give the annual public lecture.
At the undergraduate level, William teaches Law, Justice and Ethics, Land Law, Intellectual Property Law, and co-leads the Legal Communication and Writing module. At the postgraduate level, he teaches the Creative Industries and the Law module. In addition, they supervise dissertations across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.