Policy & Outreach
Ongoing Collaborations
UNICEF
We are collaborating with UNICEF on unique datasets from the Global North and South, to understand how the effects of technology and media use differ across the world.
UNICEF Ukraine from Kyiv, Ukraine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
PARENTZONE
Together with ParentZone, we are working to develop new ways to measure parenting in scientific research in the digital age. We have developed a new Digital Parenting scale, working closely with advisory groups of adolescents and parents to co-design our research.
Selected Talks for the Public
2023
Luisa Fassi, Oxford British Computer Society: Mental Health and the Effects of Social Media
Amy Orben, Queen Anne’s School, Reading: Teens and Screens: What do we know?
2022
Luisa Fassi, Pint of Science: Social Media Use and Adolescents’ Mental Health: Beyond ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’
Amy Orben, European Science Open Forum: Teens and Screens: What do we know?
Amy Orben, Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), London: Teens and Screens: What do we know?
2021
Amy Orben, Cambridge Festival: Has Social Media Changed my Life?
2019
Amy Orben, Ditchley Foundation Festival of Ideas, Chipping Norton, UK: Authenticity, self and social media in modern politics: how to discuss facts in a politics dominated by personality? Discussion between Dominic Grieve MP and Amy Orben
Selected Policy Evidence
Oral Evidence
2023
UK Education Select Committee Briefing
US Surgeon General Briefing
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Report Paper Committee on the Impact of Social Media on the Health Effects of Adolescent and Children
2022
Public Health Agency of Canada
2021
US Surgeon General Briefing
2020
Bavarian State Government Select Committee
2019
Bavarian State Government Select Committee
2018
Parliamentary Inquiry about Social Media Use, London, UK
Written Evidence
2023
Parliamentary Inquiry about the impact of screen time on education and wellbeing, House of Commons Education Select Committee
Barnardo’s Report: Practitioners’ emerging concerns for young people between June 2019 to November
2021, co-authored with Amber Inman, Shengyang Chen, Eleonora Contini, Rogier Kievit, Zara Kulbayeva, Mariam Shah, Ayla Pollmann, Delia Fuhrmann and Kathryn Bates
2021
Evidence to US Surgeon General, co-authored with Tara Bhagat, Thomas Metherell and Sakshi Ghai
Parliamentary Inquiry about the Draft Online Safety Bill, Draft Online Safety Bill (Joint Committee)
Parliamentary Inquiry about Online Safety and Online Harms, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-Committee on Online Harms and Disinformation
2020
Parliamentary Inquiry about Impacts of Living Online, House of Lords COVID Committee, co-authored with Johannes, N., Nash, V., and Przybylski, A.
British Academy Childhood Policy Programme
2019
Evidence to the Chief Medical Officer, co-authored with Przybylski, A.
Parliamentary Inquiry about Immersive and Addictive Technologies, House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, co-authored with Przybylski, A., Etchells, P., and Weinstein, N.
2018
Parliamentary Inquiry about Social Media Use, House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, co-authored with Przybylski, A. and Weinstein, N.