The Scottish Government have accounced that schools will close tomorrow, Friday 20th March. We made this handout to help kids who are anxious about this big change.
You can download the pdf copy here: My school is closing v3
and a word template for editing here: My school is closing v3
A video summarising our research has been created! You can watch the full version here. We also have a short version of the video which discusses the methods, results and implications of our research. You can watch that here. Transcriptions for both videos are available: For the full video: Word and PDF For the…
We have shared our summer update with our mailing list! You can access a PDF version with clickable links here. An image of the update is below.
Here you can download my slides on the topic of: What does the evidence have to say about screentime and atypical development? These were presented on 16th January 2018 at an event called Screen Time: Research, policy and communication in a digital era. The event was hosted by Pete Etchells and featured researchers, community stakeholders,…
DART researchers recently collaborated on a project investigating the accuracy of portrayals of autism on TV and film. The final article in Psychiatry Research is available here and we also wrote a letter to the editor on the topic, now published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders You can also see the perspective of…
We really liked this balanced, evidence-based blog post which provides an accessible overview of the relations between so-called ‘screen time’ and mental health in young people. …and not just because it quotes our 2016 blog on the topic.
DART researchers are closely affiliated with the Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort which is a large longitudinal follow-up study of babies born early. Here’s a bit of press coverage of our work, published in November 2017 for World Prematurity Day.