Child Development and Digital Technologies
We focus 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. We've created a series of novel virtual reality and game-based interventions for neurodivergent children that are used globally.
Over the next 5 years we'll continue to expand and refine our 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 every changing digital landscape on childhood mental and cognitive health.
The Lab is led by Dr Hannah Kirk.