Public Engagement

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Technical Consultation Meeting on Social Media and Drug Use Prevention.

Youth Opportunity Summit at St James’s Palace.

Hosted by His Majesty King Charles III through the King Charles III Charitable Fund and The King’s Trust, recognising the UK Anti-Knife Crime Coalition’s efforts. Attended by Sir Idris Elba, Sir Keir Starmer, Baroness Lawrence, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State Lisa Nandy MP, and youth campaigners with lived experience.

• May 2026 — Preventing Harm to Children in the UK – Preventing a Public Health Crisis (Royal Society of Medicine & Faculty of Public Health, London, UK)

• May 2026 — Online Harms Roundtable: Taking a Public Health Approach to Online Harms (Scottish Government & Children’s First, Edinburgh, UK)

• March 2026 — Advancing Data Science to Examine the Causal Relationship Between Social Media Content and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours (Child and Adolescent Seminar Series, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

• February 2026 — Cleaning the Digital Environment: Tackling Youth Violence on Social Media (Adolescence Unfiltered Conference, Online)

• February 2026 — A Public Health Approach to Online Harms: The Case for Digital Sanitation (Scottish Government & Children First Roundtable, Edinburgh, UK)

• February 2026 — Addressing Youth Violence on Social Media: The Case for Digital Sanitation (Keynote) (Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, Glasgow, UK)

• February 2026 — Social Media Bans and Impacts on Adolescent Mental Health (UNICEF, Copenhagen, Denmark)

• January 2026 — Advancing Data Science to Examine the Causal Relationship Between Social Media Content and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours (George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA)

• November 2025 — Digital Dilemma: Balancing Tech and Wellbeing for the Next Generation (Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Conference, UK)

• October 2025 — Navigating the Social Media Landscape (Adolescence Unfiltered Conference, Online)

• July 2025 — UK Anti-Knife Crime Coalition: 1 Year On (St James’s Palace, UK; attended by His Majesty The King, the Prime Minister, and the Home Secretary)

• June 2025 — Social Media and Adolescent Play: Power 2 Play Initiative (House of Lords, UK)

• May 2025 — The Impact of Screen Time and Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health (SAGE Publications, Online)

• May 2025 — Integrating Social Media Data Donation into Health Research (The Alan Turing Institute, Online)

• May 2025 — Exploring the Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Wellbeing (Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Online)

• April 2025 — The Potential Role of Social Media in Shaping Adolescent Mental Health (Keynote) (Edinburgh Mental Health, University of Edinburgh, UK)

• March 2025 — How Can We Foster Digital Environments That Encourage Hope, Connection, and Meaningful Action? (Anthropy National Gathering for UK Thought Leaders, Eden Project, UK)

• February 2025 — Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Causal Methodologies for Policy – Achieving Evidence in the Next 2–3 Years (University of Cambridge, UK)

• January 2025 — The Target Trial Emulation Approach (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK)

• August 2024 — The Potential Role of Social Media in the Prevention of Drug Use (United Nations Technical Consultation Meeting, Vienna, Austria)

• January 2024 — The Translation of Causal Evidence to the Court Setting (Knight First Amendment Institute, New York, USA)