SMARTSchoolsStudy
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Smartphones, social Media & Adolescent mental wellbeing: impact of school policies Restricting dayTime use. @NIHRresearch study @UBSportExR @UoB_IAHR @IMH_UoB
Birmingham, England
Joined August 2022
📵How do schools rationalise their phone policies? 📱What are the key rules for phone use? 🏫Do teachers and pupils understand, follow and support the rules? Find out more from our latest paper analysing school policies across 30 schools in the UK ⬇️
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We found that increased phone and social media use were associated with worse outcomes, including worse wellbeing and mental health outcomes, less physical activity and poorer sleep, lower educational attainment and more disruptive classroom behaviour
birmingham.ac.uk
First study of its kind finds that restrictive school policies don’t lead to lower phone and social media use overall, nor better outcomes among students.
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RT @unibirmingham: Our researchers have found that banning phones in schools doesn’t improve students’ mental health and wellbeing. However….
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RT @BBCBreakfast: Banning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental wellbeing, the first stud….
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RT @laurajwright21: Check out this fascinating research from @VGoodyear and the @SMART_SchStudy team!.
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Our study findings, published today, suggest that banning smartphones in schools is not enough to tackle the negative impacts of phone and social media use on adolescents’ wellbeing, and that a more holistic approach is needed.
thelancet.com
There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support...
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RT @TheCLAlliance: “Rather than prohibiting and punishing young people, the pressure needs to be placed on the platforms themselves to ensu….
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RT @VGoodyear: Sad to say goodbye to Becky today from the @SMART_SchStudy team. We will miss you! @beckytward
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RT @centre_ub: Yesterday the Centre-UB team got together to film our student and fellows welcome video! Thank you to Darren from @UoB_HEFi….
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RT @VGoodyear: ⬇️ Latest paper from the @SMART_SchStudy @NIHRresearch reporting data on the design and implementation of school phone polic….
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RT @centre_ub: A key study from our team, involving partners and supervisors. We are continuing this work on adolescent phone use with a st….
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RT @centre_ub: Partners & Researchers @Centre_ub are exploring the impact of smartphone & social media use on adolescent mental wellbeing,….
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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, this year the theme is movement. Everyone can get the mental health benefits of moving more, it’s all about finding what works for you. Find out more: #MomentsForMovement #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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RT @C_Hendrick: New study: what is the impact of banning phones in middle school? . ▶️ better academic outcomes.▶️ less incidents of bullyi….
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Exciting new PhD Studentship @centre_ub .Study with us on the Starting School Study📱.See below for details⬇️.
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RT @Livingstone_S: "the evidence for banning mobile phones in schools is weak and inconclusive" #MarilynCampbell #ElizabethEdwards @QUT. 4….
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Mobile phones are currently banned in all Australian state schools and many Catholic and independent schools around the country. This is part of a global trend over more than a decade to restrict p…
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RT @Larryferlazzo: My students are distracted by their phones during class. You’d be shocked by who’s calling. via….
slate.com
Phone-free schools seem like a no-brainer. The sticking point is not what you'd think.
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RT @RandhawaAmie: Glad to be involved in an important and timely paper on how we approached the safeguarding concerns raised during researc….
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