DrSharon Horwood
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/Deakin Lifespan Institute
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- Senior LecturerFaculty of Health/School of Psychology/Deakin Lifespan Institute
- +61 3 556 33294 (Work)
- Warrnambool Campus, Princes Highway, Warrnambool Victoria 3280
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Impacts of problematic technology use on health and wellbeing across the lifespan
Knowledge Areas
Personality, human-computer interaction, screen time, health and wellbeing, child development
Projects
BlackScreens: Child and adolescent well-being in the smartphone era
GRANTS
- GRANTConsequences of screen-use for school-readiness. A register-based follow-up of The Digital Child StudyIndependent Research Fund Denmark1 Feb 2026People funded by this grant:
- Flensborg-Madsen T,
- Horwood S,
- Grøntved A,
- Bolling M,
- Bikic A
- GRANTSocial media and adolescent mental health: Causal and real-time insights from a policy-driven natural experiment and digital sensing1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028People funded by this grant:
- Vijayakumar N,
- Horwood S,
- Allen N,
- Anglim J,
- Ellul S
- GRANTDigital experiences of children and youth15 May 2025 - 16 Mar 2026People funded by this grant:
- McLean S,
- Fuller-Tyszkiewicz M,
- Jarman H,
- Vijayakumar N,
- Horwood S
- GRANTDigital experiences of children and youthNational Mental Health Commission15 May 2025 - 16 Mar 2026People funded by this grant:
- McLean S,
- Fuller-Tyszkiewicz M,
- Horwood S,
- Jarman H,
- Vijayakumar N
- CONTRACT RESEARCHEvaluating the Impact of Data-driven Alcohol Health Promotion1 Oct 2018 - 30 Jun 2019People funded by this grant:
- Droste N,
- Miller P,
- Horwood S