Our experts

Meet our expert panel, a broad range of industry professionals with in-depth knowledge on a range of e-safety issues affecting children and young people.

Our experts are on hand to offer advice to parents on online safety issues that they’re most concerned about.

Carolyn Bunting

CEO

Expertise: General internet safety

Dr Linda Papadopoulos

Psychologist & Internet Matters Ambassador

Expertise: Cyberbullying, body-image, self-esteem, mental health

Lauren Seager–Smith

CEO, Kidscape

Expertise: Bullying, cyberbullying, general online safety

John Carr

E-safety Expert

Expertise: Online safety regulation & policy, general online safety

Will Gardner

CEO, Childnet International & Director, UK Safer Internet Centre

Expertise: Online safety regulation & policy, general online safety

Catherine Knibbs

Child Trauma therapist

Expertise: Online abuse & cybertrauma, mental health

Sajda Mughal OBE

CEO of JAN Trust and Consultant

Expertise: Radicalisation, social inclusion

Prof. Andy Phippen

Professor, Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth

Expertise: Social responsibility, IT, general online safety

Adam Deen

Executive Director (UK), Quilliam International

Expertise: Radicalisation, extremism

Tink Palmer

CEO of The Marie Collins Foundation

Expertise: Online grooming & sexual abuse

Julia von Weiler

Executive Director, Innocence in Danger

Expertise: Online grooming & sexual abuse, general online safety

Liam Hackett

Founder and CEO, Ditch the Label

Expertise: Bullying, cyberbullying

Lorin LaFave

Internet Safety Awareness Campaigner, The Breck Foundation

Expertise: Online grooming, online gaming

Andy Robertson

Freelance games expert

Expertise: Gaming, family technology

Katie Collett

Senior Anti-Bullying Project Manager, The Diana Award

Expertise: Bullying, cyberbullying

Martha Evans

National Coordinator

Expertise: Bullying, cyberbullying, SEND, disability

Rebecca Avery

Education Safeguarding Adviser (Online Protection), Kent County Council

Expertise: Gaming, family technology

Dr Tamasine Preece

Head of Personal and Social Education

Expertise: Social media, self-harm and suicide & sexual and mental health

CC Olivia Pinkney

National Police Chief Lead for the policing of Children and Young People

Expertise: Policing, Cyberbullying, Sexting

Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov, Esq.

Law professor and Digital Parenting Expert

Expertise: General online safety

Jade Gayle

Education, Employability and Safeguarding Programme Manager, Kidscape

Expertise: Extremism & radicalisation, safeguarding

Parven Kaur

Digital Parenting – Helping parents & children thrive in a digital future

Expertise: General online safety

Alan Mackenzie

Online Safety Specialist, E-safety Adviser

Expertise: General online safety

Professor William Watkins

Professor of Contemporary Literature and Philosophy, Brunel University

Expertise: digital literacy, trolling, cyberbullying, fake news, populism, privacy, data harvesting