Paul teaches undergraduate and postgraduate Journalism students at Leeds Trinity University. His specialist area is online journalism, specifically setting-up and overseeing news websites in the department to allow trainee journalists to publish both collectivley and individually.

His largest recent project was a budget news website covering the start of the Tour de France in Yorkshire in 2014. The site attracted more than 100,000 visits. 

He has a background in newspaper journalism, having worked for several regional titles in Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Lancashire during the past decade.