EU Kids Online conference

EU Kids Online: European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues regarding children and the internet

An international one-day conference for researchers, policy makers, industry, educators, NGOs and government to address the policy issues and research findings about children and the internet.

The conference will focus on European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues regarding children and the internet. It will report the final results and recommendations from three year’s work by the EU Kids Online network of 60 researchers in 21 countries funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme. It will also showcase the latest current research in Europe and Worldwide.

The full Conference Programme is now online here

When: Thursday June 11th 2009
Where: New Academic Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, London. See map.

Speakers include:

• Tanya Byron (author of The Byron Review)
• Maria José Cantarino (Telefonica, Spain)
• Dieter Carstensen (Save the Children and eNACSO)
• David Finkelhor (University of New Hampshire)
• Lelia Green (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
• Leslie Haddon (LSE)
• Uwe Hasebrink (Hans Bredow Institut, Hamburg)
• Sonia Livingstone (LSE)
• Bojana Lobe (University of Ljubljana)
• Annie Mullins (Vodafone Group)
• Cristina Ponte (New University of Lisbon)
• Janice Richardson (Insafe and European Schoolnet)
• Charo Sádaba (University of Navarra, Spain)
• Katia Segers (Free University, Brussels)
• Richard Swetenham (Safer Internet plus Programme, EC)
• Agnieszka Wrzesień (Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland)
   

Registration

There is no conference fee. We regret we do not have the funds to support travel costs for delegates. Here is a list of local hotels. Please register for the conference here. Last day of registration is 18th May.

We look forward to welcoming you to LSE to celebrate the end of our project and to debate the future agenda for research and for evidence-based policy.

Prof. Sonia Livingstone, Dr Leslie Haddon and the EU Kids Online Network

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