Keir Irwin-Rogers is a Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University. Keir’s primary research interests centre on the happiness, health and well-being of children and young people, with a particular focus on developing policy and practice to reduce levels of violence in their lives. Keir acted as lead criminologist to the cross-party Youth Violence Commission and co-authored the Commission’s final report. He has advised various social media companies on their safeguarding policies and provided evidence to a number of Parliamentary committees.