Professor Jessica Ringrose (she/her) PhD (York University Canada) is co-Director of the Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity at IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London UK. She also is the cofounder of Postdigital Intimacies research network. Prof Ringrose is an internationally recognized and widely cited expert on teens and social media, youth activism, young people’s gender and sexual cultures, sex education and digital literacy in school settings. She had been privileged to collaborate on these topics with colleagues in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Chile, The Netherlands and more. She has also worked with a wide range of global and UK stakeholders to shape policy and practice in areas of education, gender, media and communications and justice, and her research recently informed the Online Safety Act, UK. Her recent projects focus on developing educational interventions to prevent tech facilitated gender based and sexual violence, online misogyny and transphobia. In 2020 she was the recipient of The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Award. She co-authored Digital Feminist Activism: Women and Girls Fight Back against Rape Culture (OUP, 2019). Her latest book, Teens, Social Media and Image Based Abuse is out in 2025 with Palgrave.