Amanda Third

Professor Amanda Third (PhD) is Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University; Co-Director of the Young and Resilient Research Centre; Research Stream Co-Lead in the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (Victorian Government); and Faculty Associate in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

An international expert in child-centred, participatory research, her work investigates children's technology practices, focusing on marginalised groups and rights-based approaches. She has led child-centred projects to understand children’s experiences of the digital age in over 80 countries, working with partners across corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors and children and young people themselves.

Professor Third is lead author of Young People in Digital Society: Control/Shift (Palgrave, 2019); Young and Online: Children’s Perspectives on Life in the Digital Age (WSU/UNICEF, 2017); and Children’s Rights in the Digital Age: A Download from Children around the World (Young and Well CRC/UNICEF, 2014). She co-authored, and led the children's consultations in 27 countries to inform, the drafting of UNCRC General Comment 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment (OHCHR, 2021).