Professor Emma Bond
Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Knowledge Exchange
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Professor Emma Bond is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Socio-Technical Research at the 小黄片app. As a key member of the University's Executive Team, she drives the research and knowledge exchange agenda across the institution, holding overall responsibility for the Research and Knowledge Exchange Directorate and the University's research and knowledge exchange strategy. Emma leads the University's preparation for REF 2029 and its Research Degree Awarding Powers (RDAP) submission alongside institutional compliance with the Knowledge Exchange Framework, the HR Excellence in Research Award, Athena Swan, and the NCCPE Public Engagement Watermark.
Emma has strategic oversight of the University's five research institutes and centres, working closely with Directors of Research Institutes, the Professoriate and Executive Deans of School to embed a rich research culture across the institution — one that generates high-quality outputs and intellectual capital, and positions the University as a leading provider of research-informed education, knowledge exchange, research and impact.
A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Emma has over 25 years' teaching experience across social science undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including doctoral supervision. Her research addresses online risk and vulnerable groups, image-based abuse, online harassment, domestic abuse and sexual abuse — work that has shaped international policy and understanding of online safety.
Emma has over 25 years' teaching experience across undergraduate and postgraduate social science courses, and 15 years' PhD supervisory and external examiner experience. She has extensive module and course leadership experience at undergraduate, Master's and doctoral level.
Before moving solely to a research based career, Emma designed and led three new courses at the University: the BA (Hons) Children, Young People and Policy (the University's first online degree, 2010); the MA Childhood and Youth Studies (the University's first blended learning course, 2010), recognised as a case study in innovative practice by the Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee and by Professor Sally Brown's Assimilate project; and the MSc Crime and Community Safety: Evidence Based Practice (2016), developed in collaboration with Suffolk's then Chief Constable as an example of university–public sector knowledge exchange.
She led successful PGR programme validations with the University of Brighton (2020) and the University of Essex (2024). In 2019 she authored the International Online Safety module for Epigeum/Sage Publishing's Staying Safe course, later revising it as the Cultivating Digital Wellbeing module (2024) and co authored the UKRIO The ethics of research involving human participants (2025).
Emma has held seven external examining appointments and has extensive experience in student recruitment and retention strategy, and in academic quality assurance across course validation, evaluation and moderation and she is recognised research supervisor with the UKCGE.
She is currently supervising two PhD students.
Completed PhD Supervision:
Teresa Sofia Pereira Dias de Castro, Thesis title: It’s a complicated situation”: Harm in everyday experiences with technology. A qualitative study with school aged children. Awarded together with a European Doctoral Degree on 2 October 2015 at the University of Minho, Portugal. Supervised to completion with Professor António José Meneses Osório from the University of Minho.
Mark Manning, Thesis title: Policing as a Virtue, Moral Alignment and Legitimacy Primary Supervisor with Professor Nigel South, University of Essex.
Emma Harvey, Thesis title: Perspectives into Technology Use in Early Years. Primary Supervisor with Professor Andy Phippen, University of Bournemouth.
Granville Sutton, Thesis title: What Meaning Does Cannabis Have for Older Adult Users Living in a Rural County? Primary Supervisor with Dr. Paul Andell, 小黄片app and Professor Nigel South, University of Essex.
Katie Tyrell, Thesis title: Intimate Relationships Online: An Exploration of University Students' Internet-facilitated Romantic Relationships and the Associated Opportunities and Risks. Primary Supervisor with Professor Andy Phippen, University of Bournemouth.
Laura Messer, Thesis title: Identity, Job Crafting and Academic Middle Management in UK HEIs, Primary Supervisor with Dr. Tom Vine, 小黄片app.
Current PhD students:
Fiona Ellis, Thesis title: Understanding training needs of health professionals for supporting adult survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Primary supervisor with Dr. Paul Driscoll-Evans, Secondary Supervisor and Prof Andy Phippen, Associate Supervisor.
Amy Grant, Thesis title: Investigating the effectiveness of integrated and asset-based approaches for the delivery of community-based mental health provision for young adult (aged 18-25) post covid-19.
Emma's research explores the everyday interactions between people, society and technology, with a particular focus on developing innovative and accessible methodologies that foster meaningful participation with marginalised groups. She is internationally renowned for her work on online and social media environments, sexting, revenge pornography and online safeguarding, and is a frequent advisor of policy and a keynote speaker at international forums.
Emma holds long-standing research partnerships with the Marie Collins Foundation, supporting children and families in recovering from online sexual abuse, and with the UK Safer Internet Centre. She has worked with the Home Office evaluating educational resources addressing online vulnerability — including for SEND pupils, looked-after children and LGBTQI+ young people — and evaluating ProjectEVOLVE's 330 statements against the UK Council for Internet Safety's Education for a Connected World framework.
Her more recent work includes an extensive body of research on safeguarding adults online and on online harassment in UK universities, including the for the Office for Students, which informed the Higher Education Online Safeguarding Self-Review Tool and Universities UK's Tackling Online Harassment and Promoting Online Welfare report, as well as . Other notable studies include ; the online vulnerability of primary-school-aged children; a five-country investigation into awareness of child helplines; and evaluations of the Revenge Porn Helpline and the Marie Collins Foundation's Click: Path to Protection training. She has also led a major review of domestic violence and abuse across five UK police forces for the Better Policing Collaborative and College of Policing, examining police knowledge of revenge pornography legislation and the role of everyday technologies in domestic abuse.
Emma's research on virtual environments, mobile technologies and risk has attracted significant international and national acclaim, including media appearances on BBC Breakfast, ITV, Radio 4's Today Programme and Woman's Hour, and Channel 4's Sex Education Show, as well as national broadcasters across the UK, US and Canada.
Recent Publications
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2026) (Eds). The Digital Student – Challenges for Higher
Education and How to Address Them. Elsevier.
Mortimer, S.; Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2026) Ten Years of the Revenge Porn Helpline. Springer nature.
Adisa, O. and Bond, E. (2024) (Eds.) Tackling Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence: A Systems Approach. SpringerPalgrave.
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2024) A Sociotechnical Anthropology of Online Safeguarding in Setty, E.; Gordon, F. and Nottingham, E. (Eds.) Children, Young People and Online Harms: Conceptualisations, Experiences and Responses. Springerpalgrave.
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2024) Why do legislators keep failing victims in online
harms?, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. DOI:
10.1080/13600869.2023.2295100.
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2023) Biases, Concerns and the Erosion of Rights– Addressing Digital Issues with Adopted and Fostered Children in a Policy Vacuum. Fostering and Adoption Vol. 47 (3) .
Bond, E. and Phippen A. (2023) ‘Online Safeguarding of Adults with an Intellectual Disability: How do we Ensure that participation and Protection Rights as Adequately met in Digital Society?’ In Housely, W.; Edwards, A.; Beneito-Montagaut and Fitzgerald, R. (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Digital Society. Sage.
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2023) Policing Teen Sexting: Supporting children’s Rights While Applying the Law.Basingstoke: Palgrave
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2023) “Section 69 – Threats of Disclose Private SexualPhotographs and Films with Intent to Cause Distress”. In Edwards, S. (2023). Blackstone's Guide to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.Blackwells.
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2022) ‘Working with schools to tackle online harms and gender- based violence’ in Humphreys, C. and Towl, G. (Eds.) Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education: Policy, Practice, and Partnerships. Routledge.
Phippen, A. and Bond, E. (2022) ‘Online Safeguarding and personal CyberSkills for Students’ in Brown, B. A. and Irons, A. (eds.) The Emerald Handbook of Higher Education in a Post-Covid World: New Approaches and Technologies for Teaching and Learning. Emerald.
Bond, E. and Phippen, A. (2021) Online Safeguarding of Adults with Mental Capacity Issues – how do we ensure that participation and protection rights are adequately met in digital society? In 5Housley, W; Edwards, A.; Beneito-Montagut, R. and Richard Fitzgerald, R. (Eds) The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society, 2v, London: Sage.
Phippen, A. and Bond E. (2021) in In D. Baker and L. Ellis (Eds.) Libraries, Digital
Information and COVID: Practical Applications and Approaches to Challenge and Change Elsevier.
Phippen A. and Bond, E. (2020) Human Rights and Cybersecurity in Jajodia, S., Samarati, P. and Yung, M. (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy Springer.
Pippen, A. and Bond E. (2020) Image Recognition in Child Sexual Exploitation Material— Capabilities, Ethics and Rights in Jahankhani, H., Akhgar, B., Cochrane, P., Dastbaz, M. (Eds.) Policing in the Era of AI and Smart Societies Springer.
Bond, E. and Phippen, A. (2020) Tackling Teen Sexting-Policing Challenges When Society and Technology Outpace Legislation Jahankhani, H., Akhgar, B., Cochrane, P., Dastbaz, M. (Eds.) Policing in the Era of AI and Smart Societies Springer.
Phippen, A.; Bond, E. and Buck, E. (2020) “Effective Strategies for Information Literacy Education: Combating ‘Fake News’” in D. Baker and L. Ellis (Eds.) in Digital Information Review Elsevier.
Phippen, A. and Bond, E, (2020) “Virtually Vulnerable – Why Digital Technology Challenges the Fundamental Concepts of Vulnerability and Risk” in J Liddle and G. Addidle (Eds.) Contemporary issues of vulnerability: Contextualising change Routledge.
Bond, E. and Phippen, A. (2022) Safeguarding Adults Online: perspectives on Rights to Participation. Bristol Policy Press.
Phippen, A. and Bond E. (2020) Organisational Responses to Social Media Storms.
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Emma has extensive business engagement experience, working with a wide range of statutory and non-statutory organisations, industry partners, NGOs and charities to translate her research into policy, practice and commercial impact.
In government and the statutory sector, she has worked with the Home Office, the Office for Students, Universities UK, the Better Policing Collaborative and the College of Policing, and Suffolk Constabulary — including chairing the NSPCC's National Ethics Committee since 2019 and serving as an invited advisor on the ESRC-funded A Catalyst for Change project and the MOPAC-funded Operation Soteria Bluestone advisory board.
Her charity and third-sector partnerships include long-standing work with the Marie Collins Foundation, the UK Safer Internet Centre, Internet Matters, Childnet International, the National Revenge Pornography Helpline, Amnesty International, Child Helpline International and b-eat.
Emma has also built significant industry relationships, including with Meta — where she has been an invited co-convenor of its High-Level Working Group on Privacy and Safety since 2023 — as well as BT, Vodafone, Orange, O2, the Internet Watch Foundation, Pinsent Masons and Enable Law, working on issues spanning child protection, online safety and legal practice. Her collaboration with the then Chief Constable for Suffolk in developing the MSc in Crime and Community Safety: Evidence Based Practice is a further example of how her research has directly shaped professional training and public-sector skills development.
She has delivered continuing professional development and training to a wide range of professional audiences, including higher education leaders, teachers, nurses, health and social care practitioners, police and criminal justice professionals, and specialist eating disorder therapists — among them staff at the Tavistock Clinic and the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust — as well as e-safety training delivered to all 31 national awareness centres across the EU, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Serbia, in partnership with Insafe.
Emma holds a range of international advisory and reviewing roles. She is an invited expert reviewer for the British Council's Newton Fund and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in the area of Public Health, as well as for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She is also an expert member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence (HLCA) Consortium in Germany.
Emma was the leading expert on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) publication specifying guidelines for service providers on the provision of information services to young children, working in close collaboration with governments, NGOs, children's charities, service providers and industry stakeholders in London, Brussels and Nice.
Her international profile is reflected in a substantial programme of keynote and invited speaking engagements across Europe, including in Venice, Paris, Barcelona, Valencia, Bielefeld, Freiburg, Rome, Luxembourg, Vilnius, Seville, Biel, Braga and Penang. Building on her ETSI work, she went on to deliver training on online safety and child protection to all 31 national awareness centres across the EU member states, plus Iceland, Norway, Russia and Serbia, working in partnership with Insafe.
Emma is Chair of the National Ethics Committee for the NSPCC and Chair of the Research Ethics Committee at the 小黄片app. She is an invited member of the UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) Evidence Group, an expert advisor for BBC Own It, and an invited member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Young People and New Media.
She has served as a 360-Degree Safe Assessor for the UK Safer Internet Centre since 2017, a Consultant Expert for Get Safe Online since 2012, and a facilitator for the European Pedagogical ICT Licence (EPICT) since 2010. She is a qualified Ambassador for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP), National Crime Agency.
Emma is a member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).