Abirlal Mukherjee
Abirlal Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor and Board of Studies Member at Amity University, Bangalore (ASL & ASCO), and serves as a Language Expert for the IMPRINT Project at the SPIRE Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He holds a PhD in English from GITAM and has pursued advanced research training with a PGDE-IB from Birmingham City University, UK, along with an M.A. and B.A. (Hons) in English from BKU. AHis work bridges language, digital cultures, and interdisciplinary innovation with a strong focus on higher education and research futures.
Agneta Hörnell
Hörnell’s research areas include health, nutrition, and school meals.
Ainhoa García Rivero
Academic Director of the Master in Innovation in Customer Experience at UNIR. PhD student. She has worked as Media Planner at Atresmedia Publicidad. During her time there, she was part of a pioneer team in the implementation, planning and broadcasting of digital advertising on linear television, being trained in HBBTV technology.
Alan Powers
Alan Powers studied History of Art at Cambridge and has specialised in British architecture, art and design of the twentieth century, as a conservation activist, writer, exhibition curator and teacher. From childhood, he has had a parallel interest in English toy theatre and is Chairman of Pollock’s Toy Museum Trust. Books include Bauhaus Goes West (2019) and Abbatt Toys (2020).
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Amrita Das
Amrita is a research scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Guwahati. Her research focuses on the intersection of childhood trauma and space in select Holocaust graphic narratives. Her other research interests include children’s geographies, childhoods in conflict areas, and South-Asian literature.
Ana Jorge
Ana Jorge is Senior Researcher at CICANT and Associate Professor at Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal. Ana works on Media and Cultural Studies, particularly researching on audiences, celebrity and influencer culture, digital culture, children/youth and families.
Anando Ghosh
Anando Ghosh is a PhD candidate in Geography, Environment, and Development at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London. He holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from UCL and an MA in Cultural Studies from SOAS, University of London. His PhD project uses a participatory sensory ethnographic approach with young people from island communities in Asia to explore how environmental and climate change influence their everyday lives and aspirations for viable futures.
Anastasia Todd
Anastasia Todd is an associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Cripping Girlhood, which was awarded the 2022 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities.
Anders Stig Christensen
I have been working with young people’s civic and democratic education since 1999 and conducted extensive empirical research among young teens in various school contexts. My main research focus is young teens as socio-economic agents and their formation of opinions and attitudes towards societal issues.
Anna Sparrman
Anna Sparrman is Professor in Child Studies at the interdisciplinary Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. Sparrman is an interdisciplinary child studies researcher exploring and challenging taken for granted theoretical ideas about children. She undertakes both theoretical and empirical investigations of social and cultural norms and values enacted by children and adults.
Anneli Haase
Anneli Haase is a researcher and lecturer for general educational science at the University of Duisburg-Essen/Germany. Her qualitative research centers on the body, political education and social difference processes focusing gender and age. She is currently writing her PhD on bodies in pedagogical settings for children and youth.
Anthea Ameer
Anthea examines talent development and STEM trajectories with a particular focus on University Mathematics Schools. With over twenty years of senior leadership experience in executive search and strategic talent advisory, she brings a distinctive cross-industry perspective to interrogating how institutional structures recognise talent, shape progression in specialised STEM fields, and ultimately influence opportunities.
Beatriz Feijoo
Beatriz holds a Doctorate in Communication and a degree in Advertising and Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Vigo. She is a Professor at the University of Villanueva. She has also worked as a teacher and researcher at the Universidad de los Andes (Chile), the University of Vigo and the International University of La Rioja. She is the author of several publications and scientific articles on communication and children, as well as director of research projects financed with competitive funds on the same subject.
Belén Moreno Albarracín
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Creative Advertising at San Jose State University, California, where he applies a didactic methodology based on learning-by-doing, through projects that enable university-community collaboration. This has earned him the 2025 Service-Learning & Community Engagement Faculty Award. She is also Faculty Advisor of the Spartan Advertising Club, and co-founder of the Comm+ Lab.
Betul Gaye Dinc
Betul Gaye Dinc is a PhD candidate and an AHRC Northern Bridge fellow at Northumbria University, conducting a practice-based project with Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books. She holds MA degrees from Erasmus Mundus International Master’s in Children’s Literature, Media, and Culture (Glasgow, Aarhus, and Tilburg Universities, 2022) and from Design, Technology, and Society (Koç University, 2020).
Bjørn Nansen
Bjørn Nansen is a researcher at the University of Melbourne’s Human-Computer Interaction Group. His interdisciplinary work explores the social impacts of digital technology design and practice within families and childhood. He has published widely on topics including mobile media, household technology, digital memorialisation, and family data tracking.
Blandina Sramova
Blandina Sramova is an associate professor at Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic) and a professor at Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovak Republic). Her professional interest is focused on applying psychology in media and marketing communication. She publishes in indexed journals and collaborates with them as a reviewer.
Cano Amely
Cano Amely works at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, as a research assistant in the ethnographic project ‘Nutrition Education and Care in Day Care Centres,’ which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). As part of the project, his doctoral thesis focuses on health practices related to nutrition.
Carita Bengs
Bengs’ research area is sociology, young people’s health, and gender perspectives.
Carola Ray
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Carolin Freifrau Pastor von Camperfelden
Carolin Freifrau Pastor von Camperfelden, M.A., is a research assistant at the University of Bamberg since May 2024 and is part of the Bavarian research network ForFamily since June 2025, where she is also doing her PhD.
Cecilia Lindblom
Lindblom’s research area is external and internal frame factors within the school subject Home Economics.
Charlene Elliott
Charlene Elliott is Professor of Communication at the University of Calgary. She holds a Research Excellence Chair in Food Marketing, Policy and Children’s Health, and has published extensively on the nature and extent of food marketing to children, as well as digital food marketing to teenagers.
Chelsea Ren
Chelsea Ren is a research assistant at City University of Hong Kong. She researches policy and regulations of gambling-like products, such as blind boxes, and the enforcement of online platforms’ advertising regulations.
Christine Goodwin De Faria
Dr. Christine Goodwin De Faria is an Associate Professor in Child and Youth Studies at Trent University, Durham. Her current research focuses on the experiences of youth with disabilities in the justice system, youth voice and participation, and child rights.
Claire Thompson
Claire Thompson is a Reader in Food, Inequality and Health. Her research interests focus on place-based inequalities, particularly in relation to food, health and wellbeing. Her expertise is in qualitative research with marginalized, seldom-heard-from and non-normative groups in the UK.
Clara Julia Reich
Clara Julia Reich is a Ph.D. candidate at Consumption Research Norway, OsloMet University. She researches children and adolescents’ digital everyday lives in the light of datafication, and the role consumption plays in creating their sense of belonging. Her interests comprise inequalities, manipulative design, monetization and resistance, and digital playfulness.
Dag Slettemeås
Researcher Dag Slettemeås studies new digital media, consumption, datafication and the surveillance economy, commercial targeting and personalisation, digital participation and competence, with a substantial contribution relating to vulnerable groups, such as young people.
Daniella Bendo
Dr. Daniella Bendo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood and Youth Studies at King’s University College at Western. She is a critical children’s rights and childhood studies scholar. Her research focuses on advocacy, children’s rights, participation, child-centered research methodologies, youth justice, digital spaces, and community engagement with young people.
David Marshall
David Marshall* is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Business School. His research focuses on consumption practices and includes work on commensality, children’s discretionary consumption and healthy food access. He has edited several books and published widely in marketing, retailing, and consumer culture.
David Powell
David Powell studied Classics at Oxford and worked in London as a librarian until his retirement last year. He has been a toy theatre collector and performer since childhood, and is author or part-author of William West and the Regency Toy Theatre (2004), W. G. Webb and the Victorian Toy Theatre (2005), Printing the Toy Theatre (2009), and an introduction and notes to Robert Louis Stevenson’s essay A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured (2022).
Dina Fedorova
Dina Fedorova is Professor of Food Technology at the State University of Trade and Economics in Kyiv and currently a Visiting Researcher at the University of Helsinki. She is engaged in the UkrChild project, exploring how school lunch participation is associated with acculturation in Ukrainian refugee children.
Elizabeth Dempsey
Elizabeth Dempsey is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Sheffield Business School. Her research explores the consumption experiences of young people in particular teenagers and more recently has focused on the digital world.
Emiko Amano
Emiko Amano is a marketing scholar focusing on children’s and young people’s consumption, especially how contemporary advertising and marketing practices shape it, with particular emphasis on consumer protection and policy implications.
Emily Goodacre
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Emily Moorlock
Emily Moorlock is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Sheffield Business School. Her research investigates young people’s consumption, identity and exclusion through creative, participatory methods. Drawing on experience in both industry and academia, she brings a practice-informed perspective to the methodological and ethical complexities of researching with children.
Emmi Tilli
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Erika Fernández-Gómez
Lecturer at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR). Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Business and Communication since 2010, where she also coordinates the Degree in Advertising. Degree in Advertising and Public Relations and PhD in Communication from the University of Vigo. She has taught at the University of Vigo, the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (Portugal), Thomas More University (Belgium), Equinoccial Technological University (Ecuador) and Kauno Kolegija (Lithuania). She is principal investigator of the project “Advertising literacy in front of the mobile phone. Analysis of children’s ability to deal with persuasive content” (Adkids Mobile). R&D&I project with reference PID2020- 116841RA-I00 funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government.
Esther Rozendaal
Esther Rozendaal is full professor of Digital Resilience and co-lead of the Erasmus Movez Lab, a research team with a shared interest in young people, digital media, and wellbeing. Her research focuses on the empowerment of children and young people as resilient participants in today’s digital society.
Eva van Reijmersdal
Eva van Reijmersdal is Associate Professor of persuasive communication in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of embedded forms of advertising on adults and children and on how disclosures of sponsorship can inform the audience about the persuasive nature of these formats.
Fernanda Ahumada-Medina†
Fernanda Ahumada Medina is a PhD researcher in Critical Childhood Studies at University College London, examining migration and childhood in Chile. She works with young children using participatory and creative methods to explore how they experience and negotiate belonging, identity, social relationships within families, schools, and communities.
Friederike Schmidt
Friederike Schmidt is Professor for General Educational Science with focus on Gender and Pedagogical Anthropology at the University of Duisburg Essen/Germany. Her qualitative researche centers on childhood, motherhood, care and education. She currently leads the project “Nutritive Education and Care in Day Care Centres”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Frésange Maleka
Frésange Maleka PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University. My research interests reflect my status as a member of York University’s Girls’ Studies Research Network and my position as the graduate student representative for York’s Institute for Research on Digital Literacies. I study the digital experiences of Black girls in Canada, particularly as it relates to their community-building practices on social media platforms. My dissertation examines how Black girls who do not have access to Black in-person networks connect with one another in the digital space.
Geraldine Michel
Géraldine Michel is Professor at IAE Paris–Sorbonne and Director of the Chair Brands, Values & Society. Her research focuses on brand management. Author of four books, she has published numerous articles in leading international journals. She teaches brand management in France and abroad within specialized programs and also serves as a consultant for companies on brand development issues. From 2017 to 2021, she was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Décisions Marketing.
Glen Dighton
Dr Glen Dighton is a Lecturer and Research Officer in Psychology at Swansea University. His work focuses on behavioural addictions, gambling harm, and digital vulnerability, particularly in military and civilian populations. He collaborates with government and public health bodies, with research cited in parliamentary debates and international media.
Gun Åbacka
Åbacka’s research area is didactics, teacher education, and teaching methods.
Gülden Demir
Gülden Demir has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of New Media and Communication (English) at İstanbul Nişantaşı University since September 2022. She received her BA in English Language Teaching and her MA and PhD in Interpersonal Communication from Marmara University. Her doctoral dissertation, titled " Youth Perceptıon: A Research Of Young People On “The Lifeworld of Youth", was published as a book by the Municipality of Şişli in 2023 and included in the local government library. Her academic interests include digital culture, digital communication, new media, and youth studies.
Gülsün Bozkurt
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülsün Bozkurt is a media and communication scholar. She studied philosophy at Istanbul University and completed her graduate and doctoral work in journalism. Her research explores the intersections of communication, media, and philosophy, and she teaches critical thinking, media ethics, digital culture, and online journalism.
Halle Singh
Dr. Halle Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Childhood Studies and the Area Coordinator for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies programs at Bridgewater State University.
Harley Tillotson
Harley Tillotson is a funded PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire researching YA fairy fiction through an ecogothic lens. Her work explores contemporary environmental issues, drawing on her background in gothic literature, folklore, and fairy tales, with previous research on selkies, mermaids, and Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird.
Helena Sandberg
Professor Sandberg is an expert in digital communication from Lund University, with expertise in children’s digital media cultures, online marketing, and online safety. She has published over 130 peer-reviewed works, and her research has focused on children and online marketing, sponsored content and merchandising, and engagement with commercial platforms.
Henry Mainsah
Henry Mainsah is Research Professor in consumption studies and digital culture at Consumption Research Norway institute (SIFO), Oslo Metropolitan University.Henry has a PhD in Media and Communication and he conducts research interdisciplinary on subjects such as digitization, consumption, social media, smart living, creative research methods, participatory design, and digital literacies.
Hilde Voorveld
Hilde Voorveld is an Associate Professor in Persuasive Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam
Hilde Weiser
Hilde Weiser is a PhD candidate in the subject of food and meal science. Her research focuses on the values and meanings of sensory food experiences amongst children and adolescents, and its connection to sustainability. She has a BCs in Meal Ecology and a 1st level Master’s in Gastronomy focusing on creativity, ecology and education.
Ingela Bohm
Ingela Bohm, PhD, is a senior lecturer in Food and Nutrition at Umeå University. A former dietitian and teacher, her research spans food discourses, cultural sustainability, and skill development in Home Economics. She collaborates with teachers to create sensory-focused, method-based lessons that enhance students’ cooking skills and food assessment abilities.
Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen
As a scholar in childhood studies, media studies, and education, my research focuses on children’s age identity, socialization, and meaning-making in the interplay of popular culture, friendships, and family life. Theoretically, I explore the relationality of human and non-human actors within diverse sociomaterial assemblages.
Inés de La Ville
Full professor of Business Administration – Poitiers University (France), director of the European Center for Children’s Products. My research focuses on the ethical tensions underlying managerial decisions. The child-prosumer reveals the complexity of the ethical issues that managers face in order to deal with a variety of stakeholders to determine the company’s contribution to the well-being of children and future generations.
Jean Yves Taranger
ean Yves Taranger is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich. His research examines early childhood development programs in Mexico, focusing on nutrition, corporate influence, and caregiving discourses. He combines multi-sited ethnography with decolonial approaches to explore how care and consumption are politically entangled.
Jeanette Sundhall
Jeanette Sundhall has a PhD in gender studies and is a senior lecturer at the Gender and Culture studies Unit at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include children´s rights, questions of power relations and age. Her research highlights the political dimension of these areas.
Jessica Balanzategui
Dr. Jessica Balanzategui is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Fellow and leads an ARC Discovery grant, with both projects exploring how young people engage with screen entertainment in the era of on-demand streaming and participatory digital cultures.
Jiri Pavelka
Jiri Pavelka deals with communication theory, the theory of culture, semiotics, interpretation of media products, consumer behaviour, and advertising communications. He is the author of more than 120 studies and author of numerous textbooks and books, including “Anatomy of Metaphor,” “Prerequisites for Literary Communication,” and “Culture, Media, and Literature.”
Johanna Sjöberg
Johanna Sjöberg is an interdisciplinary children and childhood researcher, focusing on (visual)culture, consumption, and cultural heritage. Recent publications: Sjöberg (2024). “Children´s pictures in Research Practices across Academic Disciplines”, Child studies (6):121–142. Sparrman, Hoyle & Sjöberg (2024). “Children as archive producers, participants and agents”, Archives & Records 45(3):207–218.
Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes
Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes is a Ph.D. candidate in behavioral analysis at Consumption Research Norway, OsloMet. In her field of consumer behavior in digital platforms, she is interested in the commercialization of digital spheres, dark commercial patterns, and how market dynamics influence social relations and gendered consumption patterns.
Karolina Westling
Karolina Westling, PhD in Film Studies, senior lecturer at University of Gothenburg, is interested in the representation of children in film history, films made for a young audience, and films made by young people. Recent publication: The Cinematic Enfant Terrible. Rule breaking Children and Teenagers in French Cinema (2025).
Kisha McPherson
Kisha McPherson is an educator and scholar with over 15 years of research and teaching experience in critical race, cultural studies, social justice, and media education. Her research and scholarship are focused on the impact of media, education policies, and contemporary representations of Blackness, on the identity and development of Black girls and youth. Some of her recent work in this area includes the Black Youth Digital Creator Lab, a community-based research program which focuses on exploring the digital lives and influences of Black youth in the GTA. Dr. McPherson is an assistant professor in the Department of Professional Communications at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).
Kuma X. Xiong
Kuma X. Xiong is a research assistant and an incoming PhD candidate at City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on gender representation in video games, particularly in otome games, as well as game policy and regulatory compliance within the video gaming industry.
Kyra Hunting
Kyra Hunting, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Studies at University of Kentucky whose research focuses on children’s media brands, representation and fandom. She has published in a range of journals including: the Journal of Popular Television, Popular Communication, Feminist Media Studies, Annals of ICA, and Critical Studies in Media Communication
Lars Pynt Andersen
The research of Lars Pynt Andersen spans of consumer culture subjects such as the child consumer (e.g. as Tweens), performing gender through consumption and aging consumers. His ph.d. was about genre and irony in advertising, and his research often invokes rhetorical perspectives.
Leon Xiao
Leon Y. Xiao is a Presidential Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. He has been Called to the Bar of England and Wales. He researches video game law, particularly the regulation of loot boxes, gacha, and other gambling-like monetisation mechanics in video games that offer random rewards.
Madeleine Hunter
Madeleine Hunter is Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media and Communication at RMIT University, where her research focuses on the business of children’s entertainment in the 21st Century. She has published several book chapters and articles exploring the impact of digitalisation on the children’s media industry and its products.
Madison Moore
Dr. Madison Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Child and Youth Studies Department at Trent University, Durham and an Adjunct Professor in the Cultural Studies Department. Her research interests include child and youth culture, digital technology, child rights, and arts-based methods.
Maijaliisa Erkkola
Maijaliisa (Maikki) Erkkola is Professor in Public Health Nutrition, heading the “Family Nutrition and Wellbeing” research team at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She focuses on nutrition- related health issues affecting vulnerable populations including children, immigrants, and socioeconomic groups. Her research spans dietary assessment, sustainable diets, and health disparities.
Malene Gram
Malene G. is full professor in Marketing at Aalborg university. Her work is interdisciplinary, and she draw on multiple disciplines: marketing and consumer research, tourism and experience research, sociological, anthropological, cultural, semiotic and practice theory. She has experience in a range of different qualitative methodologies (long interviews, ethnographic studies, focus groups and advertising analysis), as well as content analysis and studies based on surveys.
Maria Gaarsmand
Main research focus is financial literacy, especially among the youth and their financial literacy education (this includes e.g. the limitations in conceptualization of financial literacy). Another area of research is stock market investments as a possibility to alleviate gender income inequality. This research project investigates female online communities.
Marlo Avidon
Marlo Avidon is a final year PhD Candidate in History at Christ’s College, Cambridge, researching elite dress in late seventeenth-century England. She is a convenor of the Workshop for the Early Modern Period at Cambridge and IHR Lifecycles Seminar.
Mary Clare Martin
Mary Clare Martin is Associate Professor in Childhood, History and the Life-Course at the University of Greenwich. Her research focuses on the history of childhood, education and youth, and social welfare, including female activism, areas in which she supervises doctoral students. She led and developed the BA (Hons) Childhood Studies programme for many years.
Mikko Laamanen
Mikko Laamanen is Research Professor in Sociology of Consumption and Head of Research for Technology and Sustainability at Consumer Research Norway, Oslo Metropolitan University. His research focuses on the everyday politics of technology, inclusion, and social change and he is the coordinator of the Research Network for Sociology of Consumption (RN05) of the European Sociological Association (2024-2026).
Nadia Di Leo†
I am a PhD student at the University of Foggia, specializing in Teaching, Developmental, and Learning Sciences. My research focuses on the intersection of technology, accessibility, and serious games, exploring how these tools can foster inclusive education. My doctoral project investigates the design and adaptation of serious games to ensure accessibility for diverse audiences, including individuals with disabilities.
Natalie Coulter
Natalie Coulter is an Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies and former Director of the Institute for Digital Literacies (IRDL) at York University, Canada. She is leading a SSHRC funded grant on Roblox, and is currently finishing a book entitled Kids, KidTech and Digital Capitalism: The fight for our digital futures to be published in 2026 by Taylor and Francis.
Pallavi Singh
Pallavi Singh is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Sheffield Business School. Her research explores child influence in family decision-making, environmental education, and sustainable consumption. With a background in ethical marketing she brings a cross-cultural lens to sensitive topics involving children, families and socialisation in consumer contexts.
Patricia Núñez-Gómez
Patricia Núñez is Professor of Advertising at the School of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid. She manages the Applied Communication Sciences Department. She holds a Doctorate in Advertising and a Master in Philosophy. She is member of several national and international research groups and director of the Research Group on Childhood and Communication Teens, Communities and Digital Literacy. Her publications have as main research lines the new technologies, social networks, children and adolescents. Her main activities include working with different children’s organizations and children in dialogues between governments, brands and these audiences. She is a trainer for several organizations on new generation issues and participates in different national and international projects on these issues.
Pål Aarsand
Pål Aarsand is Professor at the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, NTNU. His research focuses on children’s everyday lives, with particular attention to their participation in digital media practices. Key themes include digital gaming, competence, play, and identity work within sociocultural and educational contexts.
Raffaello Rossi
Dr Raffaello Rossi is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Bristol Business School. His research focuses on gambling advertising, social media, and consumer protection. His work is internationally recognised, has informed parliamentary debates, appeared in major media outlets, and supported organisations such as YouGov, Ipsos, BIT, Demos, and GambleAware.
Rebecca Hains
Rebecca C. Hains, Ph.D., is Professor of Media and Communication at Salem State University whose research examines children’s media and consumer culture from a cultural studies perspective. She is co-editor of two forthcoming volumes, Barbie in the Media and #Barbie in Social Media, and has published on topics including Disney Princesses, LEGO, and girl power.
Riikka Pajulahti
Riikka Pajulahti is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She currently studies Finnish children’s school lunch participation and learning skills, examining individual, school, and societal-level determinants among children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Rita Braches-Chyrek
Rita Braches-Chyrek, Dr., Professor of Social Pedagogy, Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg since May 2013 and is co speaker of the Bavarian research network ForFamily. Main areas of work and research are theory and history of social work, generations, gender and childhood research
Rivka Ribak
Rivka Ribak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa. She is interested in media use and non-use in different cultural contexts and in emergent practices of digitization and photography, and has written extensively about children and media.
Saeid Moradipour
Saeid Moradipour is a PhD Student at the University of Bristol Business School. His research explores consumer protection and the regulation of gambling marketing, with a particular focus on emerging technologies and youth protection.
Sanam Akhavannasab
Sanam A. joined Aalborg University Business School in October 2023 as an assistant professor in marketing and Market Research Processes Group. She received her BSc in Industrial Management and MSc in International Marketing from the University of Tehran, Iran on 2007 and 2009, followed by a Ph.D. from HEC Montreal, Canada in Business Administration with specialization in marketing and consumer behavior.
Sandra Hillén
Sandra Hillén has a PhD in ethnology and is a senior lecturer at Department of Pre-School and School Teacher Education at the University of Borås. Her research interests include children´s rights and their participation in society as well as their cultures and consumption.
Seran Demiral
Seran Demiral is a children’s and science fiction author. A prolific writer, she has published over ten novels for children and young adults. As an associate professor of sociology, she integrates arts-based methodologies and forum theatre into her research. She has been selected for an MSCA ERA fellowship at the University of Porto.
Serena Daalmans
Serena Daalmans works as Associate Professor in Communication Science and conducts research within the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University. Her research focuses on the mediated representations (of for example, morality and underrepresented groups) and the ways in which viewers evaluate these mediated messages.
Stephanie O’Donohoe
Stephanie O’Donohoe is an interpretive consumer researcher with a longstanding interest in the role of consumption in family life, especially grandparent-grandchild and parent-child relations. Her research has also explored the role of consumer culture in bereavement and books as a lens on bereavement in family life.
Susanna G. Sandberg
Susanna Sandberg has a PhD in Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science and is a registered dietitian. Her research focuses on food and meals among children and adolescents, with particular interests in school meals, feeding difficulties, and theoretical perspectives on disability.
Suzanna J. Opree
Dr. Suzanna J. Opree is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication ESHCC. Her research focuses on mapping the representation of consumer culture in commercial media, as well as its effects on youth’s materialism and well-being.
Sweta Mukherjee
Dr. Sweta Mukherjee, an education leader, holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from The English and Foreign Languages University. With a Fulbright Nehru Fellowship from the University of West Georgia, she explored innovative teaching methods. Over a decade, she has excelled in curriculum design, faculty training, and research guidance. Her expertise lies in areas such as language education, personality types in learning, and emotional intelligence in the classroom. Currently serving as an Associate Professor at GITAM University, Her international grants, including projects funded by the United Board, showcase her commitment to advancing higher education through digital tools and constructively aligned curriculum.
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Thi Thanh Nga Mai
Nga Thi Thanh Mai is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich’s Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. She studies early childhood interventions in Vietnam, with prior work on Vietnamese migration in Germany. She received her PhD in 2021 from the University of Amsterdam.
Turkan Firinci Orman
Turkan Firinci Orman, a Docent of Sociology, brings over 15 years of interdisciplinary expertise. Her research focuses on youth environmental citizenship, grassroots activism, and sustainable futures using participatory methods. Published in Journal of Environmental Education and Childhood, she advances transformative pedagogies for social-ecological transformation.
Vitor Lima
Dr. Vitor Lima is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at ESCP Business School. He previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Schulich School of Business/York University. He frequently collaborates with media outlets, such as the BBC. His awards include the AMS Mary Kay Doctoral Dissertation Award, an AMS Review - Sheth Foundation Doctoral Competition for Conceptual Articles (ADCCA), and the ACR Best Working Paper Award, among others. His research interests encompass Consumer Culture Theory (CCT), AI, robots, biohacking, self-tracking, cyborgs, and transhumanism. He holds a PhD in Business Administration (Marketing) from IAG/PUC-Rio and Schulich School of Business/York University (as a visiting PhD student). He also holds an MSc in Business Administration from FGV/EBAPE, an MBA in Marketing from FGV, a BA in Advertising with an extension in Branding from ESPM, and a Digital Marketing Strategy Executive Certificate from Harvard University.
Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk
Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk conducts research in interdisciplinary Child Studies, drawing on the History of Children and Childhood and Science and Technology Studies. Her research interests concern children, culture and values across different contexts such as corporate charity and cultural heritage. Recent publications include articles in Archives and Records, Childhood, and YOUNG.
Ylva Ågren
Ylva Ågren is an Associate Professor in Child and Youth Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research examines children’s digital lives, focusing on participation, rights, consumption, values and labour in digital media environments. Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach, her work is rooted in critical childhood studies, with a strong emphasis on children’s perspectives and child-centred methodologies.
Ysabel Gerrard
Dr. Ysabel Gerrard is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Communication at the University of Sheffield. Her research explores the relationship between social media and young identities and she is the author of The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life (UC Press, 2025). Alongside her academic work, Ysabel has also written for publications like The Guardian, Glamour Magazine, and WIRED. Find her on Instagram @dr.ysabel.gerrard or on Bluesky @ysabel.bsky.social.
Zineb Kamal
Zineb Kamal is a digital strategist, educator, and PhD candidate at IAE Paris–Sorbonne. She is the founder of Smarktic, a consulting agency specializing in digital growth and AI, and Digital On Purpose, an initiative promoting responsible screen use and digital wellness for children and adults. Her academic research examines children’s identity practices in virtual worlds such as Roblox, drawing on Consumer Culture Theory and Social Practice Theory. Bridging scholarship and practice, she advocates for ethical, human-centered technologies that empower individuals, support organizations, and serve society at large.