[3] Webley's research focuses on various aspects of the legal profession, including regulation, education, ethics, and professionalism, as well as broader concerns such as access to justice and the rule of law.
The Professions' Construction of Solicitor and Family Mediator Identity and Role, Complete Public Law: Text, Cases and Materials, and Legal Writing with various peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.
She has supervised students who are engaged in empirical socio-legal research,[6] and her contributions earned her the Law Teacher of the Year award from Oxford University Press.
[16] She explored approaches to divorce and custody disputes advocated by the Law Society of England and Wales and the UK College of Family Mediators in Adversarialism and Consensus?
: The Professions' Construction of Solicitor and Family Mediator Identity and Role, which was part of the Dissertation Series from Quid Pro Books.
The second edition of this series was praised in the Legal Education Digest for its effective communication of ideas and emphasis on students writing style.
Through the University of Birmingham, she conducted contract-based applied research and consultancy for law firms, legal professional bodies, regulators, and government departments.
[24] In collaborative work, she analyzed career strategies of white women and black and minority ethnic legal professionals in England and Wales, using sociological theories to understand how individuals navigate their legal careers[25] and also investigated factors hindering women's progression in the solicitors' profession, drawing insights from a Law Society study.