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Jessica Ringrose is a Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at the UCL Institute of Education. She studies postdigital youth cultures, identities and intimacies. Her current research is investigating how AI chatbots are fundamentally reshaping subjectivity and how youth are navigating AI risks from emotional dependency to sexualised deepfakes. She is deeply committed to impactful research, advocacy and promoting social equity, youth rights and voice. Working with a range of stakeholders across international contexts she’s helped co-produced educational guidance and interventions to support high quality sex and relationship education and digital literacy to mitigate against tech facilitated gender-based violence including image based sexual abuse, online misogyny and AI accelerated harms. Her latest books are Teens, Social Media and Image Based Abuse (2025) and Postdigital Intimacies: Relational lives in the networked public-private (2026).