Child Safeguarding Week
Event Schedule 2024

Dr Emma Barker-Clarke sits down with Safeguarding Children  consultant, Jessica McQuoid, to chat about her research into young people’s experiences of online harm, particularly digital sexual violence. After speaking with many young people and centering their voices in her work, Dr Barker-Clarke is eager for parents and caregivers to think beyond ‘stranger danger’ and instead consider harm that may be occurring between young people and their peers in online spaces.

Dr Emma Barker-Clarke is a Violence Prevention Educator working with young people and adults. She is also a Board Member with Rape Prevention Education. Emma works with NGOs in the sexual violence and family violence sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2023, Emma completed her PhD research: Digital youth of Aotearoa: perceptions of cyberbullying, sexting, gender and the intersections with technology-facilitated sexual violence at the University of Auckland.

With extensive backgrounds in both IT and privacy, Annette Mills, Professor at University of Canterbury, and Rebecca Hawkins, Privacy Advisor at Pegasus Health, will join forces to deliver a thought-provoking webinar on the implications of surveillance technology, Education Technology (EdTech), sharenting and social media use on children, and their right to privacy in the digital age. Annette and Rebecca will discuss the risks associated with the digital surveillance and tracking of children, and what parents and caregivers can do to better protect their children and safeguard their privacy.

Rebecca Hawkins is a privacy professional currently working as a Privacy Advisor in the health sector. She is a lawyer, and in 2021 attained the International Association of Privacy Professionals Certified Privacy Technologist accreditation. She has previous experience in the regulatory and compliance environment, working in the UK in Complaints Investigator Roles for accountancy and telecommunications regulatory bodies.

Rebecca heads up the Southern Privacy Network, providing opportunities for Privacy Officers and Professionals to network and hear presentations from experts in the field of privacy and security.

Previous Privacy Officer work has led her to have a keen interest in children’s privacy issues, and more recently to focus on health technologies and privacy.

Annette Mills is a Professor in Information Systems in the UC Business School (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), and current chair of the IS Group at UC. , and Chair of the Professors and Heads of IS, New Zealand group. She holds a PhD in Information Systems (Waikato), BSc in Management and Accounting (Jamaica, West Indies) and a Diploma in Computer Science. Prior to her PhD, she worked in the public sector as a programmer/analyst on various revenue projects. She teaches courses at the intersection of IT and Business.

Annette’s research focused on the potentials, challenges, and impacts of new and emerging technologies on people and society, in particular the privacy concerns raised through pervasive data collection, digital monitoring and surveillance, profiling and automated decision-making. Her work seeks to provide insights into people’s use of new technologies, the impacts (both positive and negative), and how these may be addressed. Recent work has led to a keen interest in children’s privacy and the challenges raised by new and emerging technologies.

She is the current Convenor of the Foundation’s Children’s Privacy Working Group and a member of other groups including the Digital Economy working Group.