Professor, Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science

Sonia Livingstone is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Having recently directed the research project UK Children Go Online, for the ESRC's e-society programme, Sonia Livingstone's current projects include an ESRC-funded study of the public understanding of risk and regulation and a thematic network, EU Kids Online, for the EC's Safer Internet Plus programme. She is author or editor of eleven books and 100+ academic articles and chapters on media audiences, children and the internet, domestic contexts of media use and media literacy.

She was President of the International Communication Association 2007-8 and has recently been appointed to the Executive Board of the UK's Council for Child Internet Safety.

• EU Kids Online