DFC Annual Research Insights Day

Join us for DFC Research Insights Day, a hybrid event building on DFC’s research and collaborations. We will examine how rapidly changing technologies, policy, and practices are reshaping children’s experiences and rights in the digital environment.

Key tensions emerging from current research centre on protection and participation, access and exclusion, innovation and accountability, and individual responsibility and safer design. What can children’s lived experiences tell us about the digital environments being created for them? How can policy responses better address differences in children’s circumstances and vulnerabilities, and where should responsibility for creating better digital futures lie?

Bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society, practitioners and young people, the event will connect new evidence with unfolding debates about regulation, design and children’s rights, while looking ahead to the priorities for research and action.

10:00–10:30 | Arrival & Coffee

10:30–11:45 | Welcome from Sonia Livingstone & Morning session 1 | Children's experiences in digital classrooms

11:45 – 12:00 | Comfort break

12:00 – 13:00 | Morning session 2 | Age assurance: protecting children, preserving rights

13:00–14:00 | Lunch (Staff Dining Room)

14:00 – 15:00 | Afternoon session 1 | Age-appropriate design for children: what should digital environments look like?

15:00–16:00 | Afternoon Session 2 | AI and children's futures: what’s next?

16:00 | Closing reflections by Sonia Livingstone