Ireland

Brian O’Neill is Director of Research, Enterprise and Innovation at Technological University Dublin. His research focuses on the policy context for children in the digital environment. His research focuses on young people’s use of digital technologies, online safety and policy for the digital environment. He has undertaken research for the European Commission, UNICEF, the Council of Europe, the Ombudsman for Children’s Office and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland on topics of media literacy, child rights and information society technologies.  As well as leading policy development as a member of the EU Kids Online, he is a member of Ireland's National Advisory Council for Online Safety and chaired the Irish government’s task force on Internet Content Governance. He chairs the Steering Group for Media Literacy Ireland, a multi-stakeholder initiative supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. In 2018, he contributed to the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) 10 country study on “Youth, digitalisation and gender equality”.   With the Hans Bredow Institut, Insafe and members of the EU Kids Online network, he leads the BIK-Map project, mapping policies in European Member States for a better internet for children. The most recent version of the Better Internet for Kids Policy Map was published in 2018. 

Pablo Gracia is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on families and inequalities. He is currently studying how young people’s engagement with digital technologies relates to multiple wellbeing outcomes. He is the PI of projects funded by the European Commission, the Irish Research Council and Enterprise Ireland, and the Irish leading partner of DIGYMATEX, a large international project funded by the H2020 EU programme. Dr Gracia is author of over 25 scientific publications, including peer-reviewed publications in journals like the European Sociological Review, the Journal of Marriage and Family, New, Media & Society and Social Science Research, one book published with Polity Press (Wiley) and book chapters with publishers like SAGE and Edward Elgar.

Tijana Milosevic is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Elite-S research fellow jointly appointed with Dublin City University’s Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre (ABC) and ADAPT SFI, focusing on artificial intelligence-based cyberbullying interventions on social media platforms and their policies, digital media and the implications for children’s wellbeing. Tijana is the PI on a Facebook-funded project looking into proactive cyberbullying moderation on Instagram and Facebook; and she is also working on the European Commission's Joint Research Centre's Kids' Digital Lives in Covid Times project. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. Tijana’s written a monograph on social media platforms’ anti-bullying interventions (Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies, MIT Press 2018). Her works have appeared in the Journal of Children and Media, The International Journal of Communication and New Media & Society, among others. She holds a PhD in Communication from American University’s School of Communication; and an MA in Media and Public Affairs from the School of Media and Public Affairs, both in Washington DC, where she studied and worked for six years. 

Thuy Dinh is Senior Research Assistant at Centre for Social and Educational Research, Dublin Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD in Sociology from University of Essex, UK (2009) where she studied the pattern of maternity care in impoverished socio-economic settings. She has been engaged with various research projects related to children, families and communities in Asia and Europe in last 15 years. In the last six years, she worked on a number of European projects through the “Digital Childhoods” program at the CSER, including exploration of children’s use of the internet, identifying patterns of use, as well as potential risks and opportunities technology provides. In 2016, she led a study commissioned by European Schoolnet (EUN) with support of the Kaspersky Helpline Fund of Insafe Helplines, Operations, effectiveness and emerging issues for internet safety helplines.