Research documents
17: Internet safety and schools
Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University (May 2011) A small scale quantitative survey of issues faced by school about internet…
16: Trends in media use
Childwise (May 2011) A large scale quantitative survey of children and young people’s media ownership, internet access and social networking…
15: Children’s and young people’s internet use and parental attitudes: Ofcom’s children’s media literacy tracker 2010
Ofcom (April 2011) A large scale quantitative survey of children and young people’s media literacy, revealing their engagement online and…
14: Social networking, age and privacy
EU Kids Online and London School of Economics (April 2011) A large scale quantitative survey of children’s use of social…
13: Policing online child sexual abuse
Elena Martellozzo, Middlesex University A small scale ethnographic study of the police’s covert investigations on online child sexual abuse, focusing…
12: Research highlights for children’s online gaming and addiction: a brief overview of the empirical literature
Mark Griffiths, Nottingham Trent University (Nov 2010) A literature review on children’s online gaming, revealing its incidence and consequences.
11: Online safety policy and practice in the UK – an analysis of 360 degree safe self review data
South West Grid for Learning and University of Plymouth (Sept 2010) A small scale quantitative survey of issues faced by school…
10: Sharing personal images and videos among young people
University of Plymouth (Nov 2009) A small scale quantitative study of the ‘sexting’ practices, uncovering its prevalence and young people’s attitudes…
09: Benchmarking of parental control tools for the online protection of children, SIP-Bench II
EC Safer Internet Programme (Jan 2011) A large scale quantitative review of various parental control tools for children’s online protection,…
08: Children’s online risks and safety – review of available evidence
National Foundation for Educational Research (Mar 2010) A literature review on children’s online risks and safety, pointing to its occurrence and…
07: EU Kids Online II – European findings on risks and safety for children on the internet
EU Kids Online and London School of Economics (Jan 2010) A large scale quantitative survey of children’s use of the internet,…
06: ‘Staying safe’ survey – findings for children’s internet safety
Department for Education (Feb 2010) A large scale quantitative survey that measures parents’ and children’s awareness, attitudes and reported behaviours…