Dr Luke Heemsbergen
Dr Luke Heemsbergen is an Associate Investigator whose project explores how augmented reality (AR) media socialise, and are socialised by, young children, including when these media are shared between parents and children. Luke hopes to make the bio-spatial surveillance required in AR visible to its [...]View
Dr Ines Vitorino Sampaio
Dr Ines Vitorino Sampaio is a sociologist of media and culture. She co-founded and co-directs the Childhood, Youth and Media Relations Research Lab (LabGRIM) at the Federal University of Ceara (UFC) and since 2020 is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. Ines’ rese [...]View
Dr Tebeje Molla
With special attention to equity implications, as an Associate Investigator at the Centre, Dr Tebeje Molla will investigate how African heritage families view and manage their children’s everyday digital engagement and learning. The project will be informed by an educational engagement frame [...]View
Dr Eve Mayes
Dr Eve Mayes’s research focusses on children’s development of activist sensibilities in digital worlds and in intergenerational relations. Through her work with the Centre, Eve hopes to play a small role in shifting attitudes towards children and childhood beyond deficit discourses, towards [...]View
Dr Sharon Horwood
Dr Sharon Horwood’s research focusses on the impacts of problematic technology use on health and wellbeing across the lifespan. Sharon’s work in the Centre will examine early childhood digital technology use from the perspectives of the parent, the child, and the digital environment, wit [...]View
Dr Maria Nicholas
Dr Maria Nicholas has an interest in literacy development in the pre-school years and early years of schooling, specialising in the learning, teaching and development of reading. Maria’s interests also include digital literacies, teaching approaches, and the role of mediation in child developm [...]View