Help us inform the national consultation on pupils' safety and wellbeing online

As a teacher, your insights offer a unique window into how children and young people’s online experiences affect their learning, wellbeing, and relationships.

The UK Government has recently launched a national consultation, Growing Up in the Online World, seeking views on the risks children face online and on measures to strengthen their safety and wellbeing.

To ensure teachers' frontline experiences are part of the evidence considered in these policy discussions, the PSHE Association is collaborating with researchers at King's College London and the University of Cambridge to hear directly from teachers across the UK.

What does taking part involve? 

You can complete this study online at a time that suits you in two easy steps:

1. A brief survey about your background, teaching context and experience, and views on some of the technologies and policies being discussed in the consultation.
2. A self-guided activity, where you will try an innovative and engaging research tool designed to make it easier to share your experiences. You will respond to a series of prompts in your own words, in a simple chat-style format. Your responses will then be brought together into a short narrative that you can review and edit, so you remain in control of how your perspective is represented.

The topics focus on things you may already encounter in your role, such as the risks and benefits pupils experience online, situations you have had to respond to, and perspectives on proposed measures such as age restrictions for social media.

• The whole study can be completed in around 20 minutes.
• Participants can enter a prize draw to win one of fifty £50 John Lewis vouchers.
• The study closes on Friday 1st May 2026. 

Learn more & take part

Please note that this study should be completed on a desktop or laptop, as some elements will not display or function correctly on mobile devices.

This study is open to any practising PSHE teacher in a UK school, so please feel free to forward this to any colleagues who might be interested.

If you have any questions about the study, please get in touch with Dr Nikki Theofanopoulou (nikki.theofanopoulou@kcl.ac.uk) or Dr Petr Slovak (petr.slovak@kcl.ac.uk).

 We look forward to hearing your experiences and making sure teachers' perspectives are at the heart of this important national conversation.