Adrienne Katz

Adrienne Katz is an award-winning cyberbullying expert who has extensive experience of working with schools and education providers to deliver training in online safety. She is a CPD-accredited trainer and the founder and leader of the annual national Cybersurvey, which provides one of the richest databases of young people’s views on digital life in the UK.

Adrienne has supported local authorities, agencies, schools and care settings by delivering training and education around online safety. She has previously worked for the Anti-Bullying Alliance and led on developing a new suite of statutory anti-bullying guidance for the Welsh Government. She has also managed projects funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), the Home Office and The Princess Diana Memorial Fund.

Author of three books on online safety for educators, Adrienne has also undertaken commissioned reports and evaluations. The Cybersurvey’s research partnership with Dr Aiman El Asam of Kingston University identified the online experiences of vulnerable children, which has constituted the focus of the organisation’s work since 2017 – and informs the UK Council for Child Internet Safety’s Vulnerable Users Working Group.

Named 'Inspirational Individual of the Year' in 2018 by the Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation (which raises awareness of the damaging long-term effects of bullying), Adrienne is a member of AACOSS, the Association of Adult and Child Online Safety Specialists.