Academic at Northumbria University, researches family privacy, children's rights, parental 'sharenting', children's datafication, dark design, domestic abuse
Joined September 2013
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10 Oct 2025
Today is my last day visiting the @VHCInitiative. web.gs.emory.edu/vulnerabili… Thank you to @MarthaLAFineman for inviting me. The time spent exploring the FLT/VHC archives and speaking to other vulnerability scholars about vulnerability and sharenting has been invaluable.
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9 Oct 2025
Thank you to everyone who took the time to hear my presentation on vulnerability theory and sharenting today. Some great comments and questions, and a lot of food for thought.
Join the @VHCInitiative and the Feminism and Legal Theory Project for “Vulnerability Theory and Sharenting” featuring Dr. Claire Bessant on Wednesday, October 8 at 4:00 p.m. in G575/Zoom.
Email VHC-FLT@emory.edu for the Zoom link.
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14 Nov 2024
From the frame to Facebook culturednortheast.co.uk/p/fr… #BeingHumanFest @JoScottHeritage @whiteoakphotos @northumbrialaw thanks to @RayWindFund for supporting this exhibition
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7 Nov 2024
Proud to say that today 'Picture This: 20 years of Facebook, 120 years of photography' launched at Bellingham Heritage Centre, part of the Being Human Festival running 7-16 November a collaboration with @JoScottHeritage and @whiteoakphotos thanks to @RayWindFund #BeingHuman2024
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7 Nov 2024
beinghumanfestival.org/event… for more information about this free exhibition and bookable evening activities (9 and 16 November) @NorthumbriaLaw @NorthumbriaUni
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Claire Bessant retweeted
4 Nov 2024
Save the date: November 18th 2024, 5.30-7pm
#AI and Educational Settings. Children's Data: Use and Access
Committee Room 4, Houses of Parliament.
More details to follow with event registration sign up.
Join us for a discussion incl. new research from Dr. Claire Bessant @cpb27
ALT save the date november 18th 2024 at 5.30 pm until 7pm for an event on Artificial intelligence and Educational Settings, children's data use and access. Committee Room 4 at the Houses of Parliament. Sign up will be required via eventbrite to follow.
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24 Oct 2024
I love that new book smell - and even better when the book in question includes a chapter you've written!
Can't wait to get started reading all the other chapters 🆓 Read the Intro 📷 doi.org/10.4337/978103530064……
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24 Oct 2024
14 days to go until Picture This: 20 years of Facebook, 120 years of photography
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Click on the image below to sign up for our free story telling event at Bellingham Heritage Centre on 9 November beinghumanfestival.org/event…
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Claire Bessant retweeted
1 Oct 2024
Excited to see our @NorthumbriaLaw academic Dr Claire Bessant @cpb27 organising an event for this year's @BeingHumanFest - the UK's national festival of the humanities 7-16 November - led by @sasnews with @ahrcpress and @BritishAcademy_ northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/n…
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24 May 2024
🥳'School social media use and its impact upon children's rights to privacy and autonomy' now available in Computers and Education Open doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.… part of a special issue Datafied by default: Children’s Digital Rights and Education (eds @karleybeckman @tiffani_apps)
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23 May 2024
Delighted to see that this chapter has now been published. Co-authored with Dr Rachel Allsopp, it discusses just some of the important work undertaken by the Observatory for Monitoring Data-Driven Approaches to COVID-19 (northumbria.ac.uk)
22 May 2024
Chapter 5 “Data-driven decision-making beyond COVID-19: Incorporating the voice of the child” @cpb27 describes how data, combined with a view that children couldn’t contribute to matters affecting them, led government to take decisions without considering children’s views
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20 Mar 2024
Delighted to have been able to contribute to such an important text
12 Mar 2024
Just published: Edited collection on #children #youngpeople #onlineharms #onlinesafety #digitalrights
Research-based, data-driven chapters addressing how to respond to CYP's experiences online and promote their rights
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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11 Oct 2023
Great to see you sharing the findings of our (@llinong
@DrHoy480 @ProfBPereira @AlexaKaye3 @EmmaCNottingham @sgsteinberg) research with the wider world @WVUkids @wvuchambers. I'm also looking forward to presenting the findings from our study at AoIR 2023 with @llinong next week
11 Oct 2023
I'm sharing my work on #DarkDesign with the Dept. of Pediatrics today and I'm THRILLED for this exciting opportunity. I care deeply for @WVUKids and I'm excited to share how the internet can be a place for children to be safe AND thrive! 🚸
ALT WVU Grand Rounds, Week of October 9. Presentation on 10/11 titled "Dark Design in Apps and Websites for Minors: The Effects of Deceptive Patterns on Children's Digital Well-Being"
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21 Oct 2022
Thanks go to The Conversation for giving me an opportunity to discuss my favourite research topic #sharenting in an advice piece forming part of Quarter Life, a series about issues affecting those in their twenties and thirties theconversation.com/should-i… #northumbrialaw
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3 Oct 2022
My article discussing children's views about public sector data-driven decision-making during the pandemic, children's datafication, and how children's views can be fed into future data policy - is now available online at ejlt.org/index.php/ejlt/arti… @OMDDAC @IiC_rights
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Claire Bessant retweeted
30 Sep 2022
If you would like to hear me talking about #afterdark #mvawg #FemaleOnlySpaces and why I think we need a #curfewformen you can do so in November
29 Sep 2022
Bookings are now open for Northumbria Law School's SLS funded Gender-Based Violence Conference: 'Reflections on the World Envisaged in "After Dark" by Jayne Cowie' eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-ba… @NorthumbriaLaw @legalscholars
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29 Sep 2022
Bookings are now open for Northumbria Law School's SLS funded Gender-Based Violence Conference: 'Reflections on the World Envisaged in "After Dark" by Jayne Cowie' eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-ba… @NorthumbriaLaw @legalscholars
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20 Sep 2022
Great to see our Journal of Consumer Affairs article on #sharenting co-written with @LaurelAynne @llinong @AlexaKaye3 @DrHoy480 @EmmaCNottingham @ProfBPereira @sgsteinberg cited in @thehill
16 Sep 2022
Why ‘sharenting’ is sparking real fears about children’s privacy: thehill.com/changing-america…
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2 Sep 2022
Now free access, our #sharenting article establishes new terminology related to sharenting in an evolving digital world, conceptualizes a modern sharenting ecosystem involving key stakeholders and provides a research agenda for policymakers & researchers
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