Julia Claire Davidson OBE, PhD(LSE)

Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of East London

Julia is an internationally recognised expert on policy and practice in child safeguarding, online harms/safety and youth cybercrime . She is Chair of the UK Council for Internet Safety Evidence Group and provides expert advice to international and national organisations such as UNICEF, Europol (EC3) and the UN ITU and the UK Government. She has recently worked with the UK regulator to develop a child online risk taxonomy for VSPs in the context of the implementation of the UK Online Safety Act 2023 and is an Advisor to the Technology Coalition working with industry partners. She has also acted as an advisor on child online protection and Internet safety to governments and practitioners in the EU and Africa. She has been awarded research funding in excess of £10million and has directed a considerable amount of international research spanning 35 years, she has recently led part of an H2020 project focusing on the technical and human drivers of cybercrime conducting the largest EU survey of youth cybercrime in 8 countries and has conducted research on children in the metaverse.