Professor Julian Sefton-Green has worked in many countries researching young people and family use of digital technology in everyday life. His research is mainly ethnographic, focussing on socially marginalised communities, social inequality and the powerful ways that people demonstrate ingenuity, creativity and resistance often when education systems are stacked against them.

As a Co-leader of the Connected Child program, Julian is interested in ways that data now intervenes in family life, and how government and business shape life opportunities for children. He hopes to influence how people can learn to take control in digital environments, and how governments and education systems can promote equality and diversity.

Julian was one of core members of the MacArthur Funded, Connected Learning Research Network and is co-director of a 3 year study, funded by The Wallace Foundation, Tracing the Enduring effects of Community Arts participation. He currently a visiting professor at the Department of Media & Communication, London School of Economics & Political Science. He has written widely on many aspects of media education, new technologies, creativity, digital cultures and informal learning and has authored, co-authored or edited over 20 books  including a new study on The Platformization of the Family – and spoken at over 50 conferences in 20 countries.