A5016451356- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Media and Politics
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Community Health and Development
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
University of Leicester
2019-2025
University of Johannesburg
2022-2025
Institute of Criminology
2024
University of Pretoria
2022
University of Warwick
2014-2016
Bradley University
1984
Youth depression is a global emergency. Redressing this emergency requires sophisticated understanding of the multisystemic risks and biopsychosocial, economic, environmental resources associated with young people's experiences no/limited versus severe depression. Too often, however, personal focus on individual-level protective dominate accounts trajectories towards Further, studies in high-income countries (i.e., "western") typically inform these accounts. This article corrects oversights....
Adolescents experience a variety of biological, psychological and social changes. While some adolescents face significant risk, the majority young people are able to successfully navigate their way through maintaining resilience, that is, ability cope overcome adversity despite facing challenges. However, exposure acts cyberbullying is contemporary risk must also negotiate. Despite range studies examining adolescents' experiences bullying technological formats, few have considered how manage...
What enables the resilience of African emerging adults who live in sub-Saharan Africa and must contend with an everyday reality that is characterized by structural disadvantage related hardship? This question directed exploratory qualitative research we report this article. Its genesis was relative inattention to adults—that is, young people living Africa, aged 18–29. To answer question, 16 South participants (average age 21) from a significantly stressed community participated group...
Adolescents are spending significant time online. Consequently, concerns consistently raised about potential negative impacts on their mental health. Potentially, these minimise autonomy and reify the construction of vulnerable adolescent. Using template analysis, we explored adolescents’ perspectives ( N = 54) relationship between social media We centrally considered wide array uses made different by participants, focusing understandings potentially positive effects might have. Focus group...
Through empirical work we conceptualise a framework of an ethics care philosophy with digital media, coining the notion, 'digital care'. Increasing focus on potential social media to harm mental wellbeing adolescents has led greater emphasis their conduct online. Entrenched adolescent in spaces are moral theories development as young people grapple responsibility toward others from behind screens. Utilising thematic analysis group data 11–18-year-olds applied understanding. We identified...
There is widespread recognition that stressors related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) jeopardize the development of emerging adults, more particularly those living in disadvantaged communities. What less well understood what might support adult resilience COVID-19-related stressors. In response, this article reports a 5-week qualitative study with 24 adults (average age: 20) South African township. Using digital diaries and repeated individual interviews, young people shared their...
Abstract Background Air pollution is a global, public health emergency. The effect of living in areas with very poor air quality on adolescents’ physical largely unknown. aim this study was to investigate the prevalence adverse respiratory outcomes among adolescents known hotspot South Africa. Methods Ambient data from 2005 2019 for two areas, Secunda and eMbalenhle, Highveld Pollution Priority Area Mpumalanga province, Africa were gathered compared against national ambient standards World...
There is scant understanding of what supports African emerging adults who are not in employment, education or training (i.e., NEET) to show resilience NEET‐related challenges. This article narrows that gap by reporting an iterative phenomenological study with nine (mean age: 23.44; 66% female) were NEET for the 18‐month duration and living a resource‐constrained community South Africa. We interviewed each young person three times (June 2021; December June 2022). A reflexive thematic analysis...
(2019). Troubling the discourse: applying Valsiner's Zones to adolescent girls' use of digital technologies. Technology, Pedagogy and Education: Vol. 28, Theorising technology in education, pp. 435-446.
Purpose In this paper the authors share, and reflect critically on, experience of using digital storytelling (DS) methods in a South African township. We interrogate innovations prompted as we operationalized DS context that has historically prized collectivist values experiences chronic resource constraints. Design/methodology/approach The ask: How can be optimally used to understand youth resilience collectivist, developing context? worked with 18 older adolescents (aged 18–24) during two...