David Buckingham is a scholar, writer and consultant specializing in young people, media and education. He is an Emeritus Professor at Loughborough University, and an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London. For many years, he was a Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, where he was the founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.

David is an internationally recognized expert on children’s and young people’s interactions with electronic media, and on media literacy education. He has directed more than 25 externally-funded research projects on these issues, and been a consultant for bodies such as UNESCO, the United Nations, Unicef, the European Commission, Ofcom (the UK media regulator), and the UK government.

David is the author, co-author or editor of 32 books, and more than 220 articles and book chapters. His work has been translated into 15 languages. His key publications include Children Talking Television (1993), After the Death of Childhood (2000), Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Modern Culture (2003), Beyond Technology: Children’s Learning in the Age of Digital Culture (2007), The Material Child: Growing Up in Consumer Culture (2011) and The Media Education Manifesto (2019). Although he is now retired from full-time employment, he continues to write and publish, and to address conferences around the world, as well as conducting research and consultancy.

Much of his recent research and writing focuses on historical dimensions of children, youth and media: his collection of essays, Growing Up Modern: Childhood, Youth and Popular Culture Since 1945, is available on this site. This has led on to some newer essays on broader aspects of cultural history in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s, also available here. He is currently writing a new book entitled The End of Information: Media, Education and Knowledge in a Post-Truth Age, to be published by Polity Press.

David has been a Visiting Professor at several universities in the UK, the United States, Norway, Australia, Italy, Hong Kong and South Africa, and has taught and addressed conferences in more than 45 countries around the world. His work has been disseminated in a wide range of print and broadcast media, nationally and internationally. He is a nominated Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and an elected Fellow of the British Academy.

You can find a reasonably short CV here and a list of publications (2008-2023) here.