How mainstream platforms expose children to sexual content that mimics pornography and directs users towards paid-for sexual content on platforms like OnlyFans

This year marks the 12th Wave of our longitudinal study into how media fits into the lives of the 17 children we spend time with, and come back to, year on year. We have been reporting for years about...

At Revealing Reality, we explore what life online looks like through children’s eyes – talking to them, analysing their social media feeds, and stepping into their digital worlds through avatars. And ...

In Spring 2024, the minimum income requirement (MIR) to be eligible for the Family Visa in the UK increased from £18,600 per year to £29,000 per year. Plans under the previous Government proposed to i...

Much is said about what children do and watch online.   We’ve had the privilege of spending years observing children’s online experiences – watching digital trends come and go – short-lived fads, smar...

How did pupils and staff at a secondary school get on without smartphones in a three-week trial?

A recent review of online pornography suggested that offline standards for violent or abusive pornography should also apply to online platforms.   In light of this review, the British Board of Film Cl...

Large scale public attitudes research towards biometric technologies combining deliberative focus groups and a nationally representative survey.  This research was commissioned by the Information Comm...

Deliberative focus groups exploring public attitudes towards automated decision making in recruitment The landscape of job applications is continuously evolving, especially as AI and automated decisio...

Revealing Reality was commissioned by The Department for Culture, Media and Sport to examine the implications of a hypothetical Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) switch-off and the potential barrie...

Joshua Rozenburg on the Supreme Court's judgement on the legal definition of a woman.

Visceral videos of people playing with slime or braiding hair soothe those who feel overwhelmed by in-person contact

The Department for Education wanted to explore whether its guidance on the use of physical restraint, reasonable force and restrictive practices in special schools and alternative educational provisio...

New insights designed to help the food and drink sector transform the food system by changing the way consumers buy fresh fruit and veg in the UK.