Digital Mental Health Group
We are a research team led by Dr Amy Orben, based at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. We study how living and growing up in a time of rapid digitalisation influences mental health and wellbeing.
Digital Technology
Use
We study a range of different digital technologies, for example social media, and the activities they enable. Further, we are developing new methodologies and collaborations to improve the measurement of digital technology use and its impacts.
Mechanisms &
Development
The influence of technologies on mental health and wellbeing depends on many factors, including how we develop, how we think and the environment we live in. We study such mechanisms, including cognition, puberty and deprivation, with a specific focus on adolescence.
Mental Health &
Wellbeing
We want to improve mental health and wellbeing in diverse populations across the Global North and Global South, and in both clinical and non-clinical settings. Our work therefore uses a variety of designs to capture a wide spectrum of human experiences.
