our expert panel
Meet our expert panel, a broad range of industry professional with in-depth knowledge on a range of e-safety issues affecting children and young people.
They’re on hand to offer advice to parents on online safety issues that they’re most concerned about.
Dr Linda Papadopoulos
Psychologist & Internet Matters Ambassador
Expertise: Cyberbullying, body-image, self-esteem, mental health
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
Keir McDonald MBE
Founder and Director, EduCare
Expertise: Online safety in schools, safeguarding, general e-safety
Prof. Andy Phippen
Professor, Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth
Expertise: Social responsibility, IT, general online safety
Prof. Emma Bond
Director of Research & Professor of Socio-Technical Research, University of Suffolk
Expertise: Children use of media & tech, online social interactions, sexting, grooming
Adam Deen
Executive Director (UK), Quilliam International
Expertise: Radicalisation, extremism
Laura Higgins
Online Safety Operations Manager, South West Grid for Learning
Expertise: Revenge porn support, social media, general online safety
Julia von Weiler
Executive Director, Innocence in Danger
Expertise: Online grooming & sexual abuse, general online safety
Lorin LaFave
Internet Safety Awareness Campaigner, The Breck Foundation
Expertise: Online grooming, online gaming
Jacky Llyod
Head of Safeguarding and Co-founder, Silent Secret
Expertise: Social media, mental health, safeguarding
Katie Collett
Senior Anti-Bullying Project Manager, The Diana Award
Expertise: Bullying, cyberbullying
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
Rebecca Avery
Education Safeguarding Adviser (Online Protection), Kent County Council
Expertise: General online safety
Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov, Esq.
Law professor and Digital Parenting Expert
Expertise: General online safety
