Jessica Ringrose

• Professor of the Sociology of Gender and Education, Institute of Education, UCL

Professor Jessica Ringrose, 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.

Professor Ringrose has over 20 years of experience informing policy and practice across sectors of education, communications, health and justice in England and globally.

She is an internationally recognized and widely cited expert on gendered impacts of children and young people's uses of and experiences of social media and smartphones. This includes exploring online harms and youth digital activism, in contexts of increasing polarlisation and culture wars. Her work focuses on how to build online safety for families, and digital literacy in school settings. She has worked with 1000s of young people in 100s of schools on this topic, and she has collaborated on these issues in projects in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden.

In 2019 she led groundbreaking research into children's experiences of image based abuse that informed the Online Safety Act and the new Cyberflashing legislation. She went on to develop groundbreaking educational interventions to safeguard young people against image based harassment and sexual violence, misogyny and transphobia.

She has advised on these issues the following bodies: Government Office for Science, UK Government Equalities Office, Department for Education, England; The Office of Children's Commissioner England; The British Council, London Assembly Police and Crime Committee; The Mayor of London; The NSPCC, The Association of School and College Leaders and more.

Her expertise & research findings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal; BBC News, BBC Radio, The Guardian, ITV, BBC Radio, Le Monde (France) and many more over the years.

She is a former recipient of The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Award, and was the former co-chair of International Gender and Education Association.

Recent books include:

Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture, Oxford University Press, 2019

Her latest book: Teens, Social Media and Image Based Abuse is out with Palgrave in 2025.

• 2006–2024 Professor, University College London

Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award, American Educational Research Association

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