Moving from mainstream health psychology towards critical health psychology: Reflections of an early career researcher

By David Healy

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I am a final year PhD student at the University of Galway, Ireland, conducting research in psychology and digital health. In this blog, I want to share some reflections about my experience conducting research in an academic environment that foregrounds traditional research perspectives in health psychology and the different challenges I have faced on account of this.  

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(When) do digital media make us happy?

By Katrina Roen, Erik Carlquist, & Lin Prøitz; December 2020

For decades, researchers have debated the pros and cons of digital technology: does it help us live better lives, or does it make that harder? Now, in an era of pandemic and lockdown, our day-to-day experience of digital media has been brought even more clearly into focus. Our research examines the emotional aspects of this experience, asking: how are digital media woven through our lives on an emotional level? 

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