Keynote Speakers

Sonia Livingstone OBE FBA is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She has published 23 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” and Digital Media Use in Early Childhood: Birth to Six. Since founding the EC-funded “EU Kids Online” research network, followed by Global Kids Online with UNICEF, she has advised the UK government, Council of Europe, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. Recent funding includes Medical Research Council and Huo Family Foundation research on youth mental health in digital contexts, Economic and Social Research Council research on family engagement with digital platforms, MacArthur Foundation for research on digital parenting, and European Commission for research on youth digital skills, on children’s online lives, and on age assurance. Her main focus is children’s rights in the digital environment, and she leads the Digital Futures for Children centre at LSE with 5Rights Foundation.