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Welcome to the Child Development and Digital Technologies (CDDT) Laboratory

The CDDT lab’s focuses on how children are developing within the digital age. Our goal is to assess the impact that digital technologies have on childhood mental health as well as cognitive, behavioural and academic development. We are interested in creating evidence-based digital technologies to optimise mental and cognitive health in childhood. Our lab has created a series of novel virtual reality and game-based interventions for neurodivergent children that are used globally.

Over the next 5 years the CDDT lab will continue to expand and refine its inventory of digital tools and interventions. We aim to understand the mechanisms that underlie digital interventions and delineate who these interventions work best for and why. In addition, we aim to document the impact of our ever changing digital landscape on childhood mental and cognitive health.

The Lab is led by Dr Hannah Kirk

We are part of the School of Psychological Sciences and a member of the Neurodevelopment research program in the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health.