Research Highlight Series
167: Ofcom’s Children and Parents Media Use and Attitudes – Highlights from Ofcom’s 2022 Research
164: Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children’s Lives
163: Digital by Default: Children’s Capacity to Understand and Manage Online Data and Privacy
159: Sex and Consent in Contemporary Youth Sexual Culture: The ‘Ideals’ and the ‘Realities’
157: Young People’s health-related learning through social media: What do teachers need to know?
152: School-based Prevention for Adolescent Internet Addiction: Prevention is the Key. A Systematic Literature Review
Dr. Melina Throuvala, Prof. Mark Griffiths, Dr. Mike Rennoldson and Dr. Daria Kuss, Cyberpsychology Research Group, Nottingham Trent University (June…
151: Increasing Safety and the Resilience of Children at Risk of Technology-assisted Child Sexual Abuse: Implementation Evaluation for InCtrl
NSPCC Research and Evidence (November 2020) A summary of the results of evaluation of the NSPCC InCtrl programme. This is…
150: Ofcom Adults’ Media Use and Attitudes – Highlights from Ofcom’s 2020 Research
Critical Research/The Knowledge Agency/Ofcom (June 2020) A summary of the results of the Ofcom Adults’ Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale…
149: Ofcom Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Highlights from Ofcom’s 2019 Research
Critical Research/Ofcom (February 2020) A summary of the results of the Ofcom Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on in-home…
148: Police response to youth offending around the generation and distribution of indecent images of children and its implications
Professor Andy Phippen, University of Bournemouth and Professor Emma Bond, University of Suffolk (2020). A summary of a study exploring the…
147: Intimate image abuse in adults and under 18s: A comparative analysis of cases dealt with by the Revenge Porn Helpline and Professionals Online Safety Helpline
SWGfL in partnership with the University of Exeter Economic and Social Research Council (October, 2019) A summary of a qualitative…
146: Ofcom Adults: Media Use and Attitudes – Highlights from Ofcom’s 2018 Research 2
Critical Research/Ofcom (May 2019) A summary of the results of Ofcom’s Adults’ Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on in-home interviews…
145: Ofcom Adults: Media Use and Attitudes – Highlights from Ofcom’s 2018 Research 1
Critical Research/Ofcom (May 2019) A summary of the results of Ofcom’s Adults’ Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on in-home interviews…
144: Ofcom Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Highlights from Ofcom’s 2018 Research 2
Critical Research/Ofcom (June 2018) A summary of the results of the Ofcom Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey…
143: Ofcom Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Highlights from Ofcom’s 2018 Research 1
Critical Research/Ofcom (June 2018) A summary of the results of the Ofcom Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on…
142: Tackling Gaming Addiction in the UK
Daria Kuss (Nottingham Trent University) (March, 2019) A summary of the key findings from a report examining how the addictive…
141: Children’s Data and Privacy Online: Growing Up in a Digital Age An Evidence Review
Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rishita Nandagiri (London School of Economics and Political Science) (February, 2019) A summary of the…
140: Inequalities in How Parents Support Their Children’s Development with Digital Technologies. Parenting for a Digital Future: Survey Report 4
Sonia Livingstone and Dongmiao Zhang (London School of Economics and Political Science) (February, 2019) An overview of the key findings…
139: What Do Parents Think and Do About Their Children’s Online Privacy? Parenting for a Digital Future: Survey Report 3
Sonia Livingstone, Alicia Blum-Ross and Dongmiao Zhang (London School of Economics and Political Science) (February, 2019) A summary of the…
138: When Do Parents Think Their Child is Ready to Use the Internet Independently? Parenting for a Digital Future: Survey Report 2
Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Kjartan Ólafsson (University of Akureyri) (February, 2019) An overview of…
137: In the Digital Home How Do Parents Support their Children and Who Supports Them? Parenting for a Digital Future: Survey Report 1
Sonia Livingstone, Alicia Blum-Ross and colleagues (London School of Economics and Political Science) (February, 2019) A summary of the key results…
136: The Trouble with “Screen Time” Rules
Alicia Blum-Ross and Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science) (February, 2019) An overview of the results of…
135: Imagining the Future Through the Lens of the Digital: Parents’ Narratives of Generational Change
Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross (London School of Economics and Political Science) (February, 2019) This study explored parents’ “digital imaginaries”…
134: Rules of Engagement: Family Rules on Young Children’s Access to and Use of Technologies
Stephane Chaudron (European Commission) and colleagues (February, 2019) A summary of the results of a project examining young children’s access…
133: Research for Culture and Education Committee (CULT) – Child Safety Online: Definition of the Problem
Brian O’Neill (Dublin Institute of Technology) (February, 2019) An overview of the key findings from a briefing paper produced for…
132: Vulnerable Young People and Their Experience of Online Risks
Adrienne Katz (Youthworks) and Dr Aiman El Asam (University of Kingston) (February 2018) A summary of the results of a…
131: Case Studies of Men’s Perceptions of Their Online Sexual Interactions with Young People: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Dr Juliane Kloess (University of Birmingham), Dr Michael Larkin (Aston University), Dr Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis (University of Bath), and Professor Anthony…
130: Ofcom Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Focus on Critical Understanding
Saville Rossiter-Base/Ofcom (May 2018) A summary of the results of the Ofcom’s Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based…
129: Media Use and Attitudes – Focus on Online Risks and Parental Mediation
Saville Rossiter-Base/Ofcom (May 2018) A summary of the results of the Ofcom’s Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on in-home…
128: Embracing Powerlessness in Pursuit of Digital Resilience: Managing Cyber-Literacy in Professional Talk
Dr Simon P Hammond and Professor Neil Cooper (Centre for Research on the Child and Family, University of East Anglia) (May…
127: Social Media, Social Capital and Adolescents Living in State Care: A Multi-Perspective and Multi-Method Qualitative Study
Dr Simon P Hammond, Professor Neil Cooper and Mr Peter Jordan (Centre for Research on the Child and Family, University…
125: Safer Internet Day 2018 – Digital Friendships: The Role of Technology in Young People’s Relationships
Maithreyi Rajeshkumar and Chris Heal (UK Safer Internet Centre) (February 2018) A summary of a large scale study examining the…
124: Offence Processes of Online Sexual Grooming and Abuse of Children Via Internet Communication Platforms
Dr Juliane Kloess (University of Birmingham), Dr Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis (University of Bath), and Professor Anthony R. Beech (University of Birmingham) (July 2017) A summary of…
123: Does Young People’s Tendency to Experience Risks Reach Across the Online/Offline Divide?
Dr Anke Görzig and the EU Kids Online UK Team (LSE) (January 2018) A summary of the results of a large scale study…
122: Maximising Opportunities and Minimising Risks for Children Online: The Role of Digital Skills in Emerging Strategies of Parental Mediation
Sonia Livingstone, Kjartan Ólafsson, Ellen Helsper, Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Giuseppe Veltri and Frans Folkvord (Nov 2017) A summary of the results…
121: ‘Sharenting’, Parent Blogging, and the Boundaries of the Digital Self
Professor Sonia Livingstone and Dr Alicia Blum Ross (Nov 2017) A summary of research examining how parent bloggers represent themselves…
120: Digital Monitoring Behaviours from a Social Learning Perspective
Joris Van Ouytsel, Koen Ponnet and Michel Walrave (Nov 2017) A summary of the results of a study investigating the…
119: Adolescents’ Perceptions of the Applications Used, Motives For, and Consequences of Sexting
Joris Van Ouytsel, Ellen Van Gool, Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet and Emilie Peeters (Nov 2017) A summary of the results of a study examining high school students’ perceptions of…
118: Cyberbullying Among Young People
Directorate-General for Internal Policies, European Parliament (Nov 2017) A summary of a report examining the extent, scope and forms of cyberbullying in…
117: House of Lords: Growing Up with the Internet
House of Lords (Nov 2017) A summary of the key findings and recommendations of the inquiry by the House of…
116: Children’s Online Activities, Risks and Safety: A Literature Review by the UKCCIS Evidence Group
Professor Sonia Livingstone, Professor Julia Davidson and Dr Jo Bryce, with Saqba Batool, Ciaran Haughton, Anulekha Nandi, and the UKCCIS…
115: Net Aware Report 2017: “Freedom to Express Myself Safely”
NSPCC (Sept 2017) A summary of the results of a large scale study examining the opportunities and risks experienced by young…
114: The Impact of Online Pornography on Children and Young People
Dr Elena Martellozzo and Dr Miranda A.H. Horvath, Middlesex University (June 2017) A summary of the results of a large…
113: CHILDWISE Monitor Report 2017
Childwise (Jan 2017) An overview of the results of the CHILDWISE Monitor Report 2017. This large scale, quantitative study consulted a…
112: Self-Produced Images – Risk Taking Online (SPIRTO) Project
Dr Ethel Quayle et al (July 2015) The EU funded SPIRTO Project examined the risks related to young people generating…
111: UK Schools Online Safety Policy and Practice Assessment 2016
Professor Andy Phippen (Oct 2016) An overview of the results of the analysis of the self-assessment data collected from the 360…
110: Adolescents and Self-Taken Sexual Images: A Review of the Literature
Dr Ethel Quayle & Dr Karen Cooper (University of Edinburgh, UK), Prof Carl-Göran Svedin & Dr Linda Jonsson (Linköping University,…
109: Cyberbullying Involvement Roles and Viewing of Suicide-Related Web-Content
Dr. Anke Görzig (Aug 2016) An overview of the results of a study investigating the relationships between cyberbullying roles, viewing of…
108: Safer Internet Day 2017: Power of Image – A Report into the Role and Influence of Images and Videos in Young People’s Digital Lives
UK Safer Internet Centre (Feb 2017) A summary of the results of an online survey of representative group of 1,500…
107: Ofcom Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Focus on Critical Understanding, Attitudes & Parental Controls
Ofcom (Nov 2016) A summary of the results of the Ofcom Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on…
106: Ofcom Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes, Focus on Take Up and Use
Ofcom (Nov 2016) A summary of the results of the Ofcom Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on…
105: A Review of the Research on Children and Young People who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviour Online
NSPCC (Nov 2016) A summary of the results of a systematic literature review examining the developmental appropriateness of children and young…
104: Global Kids Online: Research Synthesis 2015-2016
Global Kids Online (Nov 2016) This report presents the results of qualitative and quantitative research which sampled internet-using children aged…
103: Sexual Rights and Sexual Risks among Youth Online: A Review of Existing Knowledge Regarding Children and Young People’s Developing Sexuality in Relation to New Media Environments
eNACSO & EU Kids Online (Nov 2016) This report reviews available research literature from a diverse group of stakeholders and…
102: Families and Screen Time: Current Advice and Emerging Research
LSE Media Policy Project (Nov 2016) This report reviews the academic literature on ‘parental mediation’, highlighting findings on ‘what is…
101: Youth Pathways into Cybercrime
Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS), Middlesex University (Nov 2016) A summary of the results of a two phase…
100: ISEC Project Illegal Use of the Internet Project: Cyber-typologies and Victimisation
Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS), Middlesex University (Nov 2016) A summary of the results of a retrospective online…
99: ISEC Project Illegal Use of the Internet Project — National Police Surveys
Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS), Middlesex University (Nov 2016) A summary of the results of an online questionnaire…
98: Insafe Helplines: Operations, Effectiveness and Emerging Issues for Internet Safety Helplines
European Schoolnet (EUN), Insafe & the Kaspersky Helpline Fund (May 2016) A summary of the results of research conducted by EU…
97: Safer Internet Day 2016: Campaign Evaluation
UK Safer Internet Centre & Populus (September 2016) A summary of the results of an online survey of a nationally representative…
96: Sexting and Young People: The Parent's View
NSPCC (August 2016) A summary of the results of a large scale survey undertaken by FACTs International, on behalf of…
95: Children’s Media Lives: Year 2 Findings – Social Media and Identity
ESRO/Ofcom (January 2016) A summary of the results of Ofcom’s Children’s Media Lives Study Year 2. This is a small-scale, qualitative…
94: Children’s Media Lives: Year 2 Findings – Role of TV and Search Behaviours
ESRO/Ofcom (January 2016) A summary of the results of Ofcom’s Children’s Media Lives Study Year 2. This is a small-scale, qualitative study…
93: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Parental Concerns and Mediation
Ofcom (November 2015) A summary of the results of Ofcom Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on in-home…
92: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Children’s Media Access, Use and Critical Understanding
Ofcom (November 2015) A summary of the results of Ofcom Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on in-home…
91: Safer Internet Day 2016 Creating a Better Internet for All
UK Safer Internet Centre / ResearchBods (February 2016) A summary of the results of an online survey of young peoples’ attitudes,…
90: Safer Internet Day 2015: Campaign Evaluation
Populus (November 2015) A summary of the results of an online survey of a nationally representative group of adults, teens and…
89: How Parents of Young Children Manage Digital Devices at Home
EU Kids Online, LSE (November 2015) A summary of the results of the re-analysis of the qualitative research study conducted…
88: ISEC Illegal Use of the Internet Project — Stakeholder Consultation
Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies, Middlesex University (November 2015) A summary of the results of a small scale stakeholder consultation…
87: Children’s Media Lives: Year 1 Findings – Advertising, Content Creation and Funding
ESRO/Ofcom (October 2015) A summary of the results of Ofcom Children’s Media Lives Year 1 Study. This is a small-scale, qualitative…
86: Children’s Media Lives: Year 1 Findings – Devices and Activities
ESRO/Ofcom (October 2015) A summary of the results of Ofcom Children’s Media Lives Year 1 Study. This is a small-scale, qualitative study…
85: Children’s Media Lives: Year 1 Findings – Online Safety, Family Dynamics, Parental Concerns and Mediation
ESRO/Ofcom (October 2015) A summary of the results of Ofcom Children’s Media Lives Year 1 Study. This is a small-scale, qualitative study…
84: Childwise Monitor PreSchool Report 2015
Childwise (October 2015) A summary of the results of the CHILDWISE Monitor Pre-School Report 2015. It provides an overview of trends…
83: Net Children Go Mobile: UK Qualitative Research Results
Net Children Go Mobile (July 2015) A summary of the UK results of a larger scale European qualitative study of the perceptions…
82: Net Children Go Mobile: European Qualitative Research Results
Net Children Go Mobile (July 2015) A summary of a large scale European qualitative study of the perceptions and perspectives of…
81: Young Children (0-8) and Digital Technology: A Qualitative Exploratory Study Across Seven Countries
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (June 2015) A summary of a European pilot study undertaken across 7 countries. 70 focus groups…
80: EU Kids Online: The Meaning of Online Problematic Situations for Children
EU Kids Online (June 2015) A summary of a report presenting the results of a large scale European study which used…
79: EU Kids Online: Developing Social Media Literacy
EU Kids Online (June 2015) A summary of a report presenting the results of a large scale European study which used…
78: Internet Watch Foundation: Study of Youth-Produced Sexual Content
IWF (June 2015) An overview of the results of a 3 month study by IWF Internet Content Analysts examining the…
77: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Parental Mediation
Ofcom (February 2015) A summary of the results of the Ofcom’s Children’s Media Literacy Tracker, a large-scale quantitative survey based on…
76: Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes – Children's Usage
Ofcom (February 2015) A summary of the results of the Ofcom’s Children’s Media Literacy, a large-scale quantitative survey based on in-home…
75: Net Aware: A Parent's Guide to Social Networking Sites
NSPCC (January 2015) The results of a large scale quantitative study which informed the design of the NSPCC Netaware Guide. The…