[7] While at Glasgow Media Group Briant co-authored the study Bad News for Disabled People with Greg Philo and Nick Watson.
[15] In 2015, while lecturer in journalism studies at University of Sheffield, Briant published her second book, Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, based on her doctoral thesis.
The book examines British and United States governments' attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a rapidly changing media environment.
[16] She continues to publish both on language and definitions of propaganda;[17] strategy and tactics in influence operations; ethics of data use and surveillance[18] in the context of political campaigns, international security and conflicts.
[29] In 2018, while she was a senior lecturer at University of Essex, Briant was involved in revealing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, a global disinformation and data scandal involving Facebook, the campaign firm Cambridge Analytica, that worked for Donald Trump and on the Brexit campaigns, and its defence contractor parent firm SCL Group.