Until We Tweet Again: What Happens Next? podcast on social media and mental health
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This episode of What Happens Next? features all the best tips and guidance from our experts about how to help young people manage their social media use for mental health and wellbeing, and how it can be used to build communities and share stories.
About the Authors
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Gemma sharp
Adjunct Associate Professor (Research), Department of Neuroscience
Gemma established and has led the Body Image and Eating Disorders Research Program since 2018. She became a Professor (Level E) in 2024 at another university, and is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership 2 Fellow (2023-2028) and a former NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow (2018-2022). She holds a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology (University of Adelaide), Bachelor of Science honours degree in microbiology and immunology (University of Adelaide), a master’s degree in oncology (University of Cambridge), a diploma of languages in Japanese (University of Adelaide), a graduate diploma in psychology (University of Adelaide), a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences honours degree in psychology (Flinders University) and a PhD in clinical psychology (Flinders University). Her research career in both medical science and mental health has seen her study and work in Australia, Japan and the UK. Gemma and the program she heads investigate the factors leading to body image concerns, eating and weight disorders (across the age and gender spectrum). and novel therapeutic interventions to address these concerns. In 2023-24, she led the development of a world-first free online educational resource to explain the intersection of eating disorders and menopause. She has a keen interest in intersection of eating disorders and women’s health, particularly pregnancy and perimenopause. Gemma is the founding director of the Consortium for Research in Eating Disorders (CoRe-ED) charity, which brings together all key voices in eating disorder research on a global scale to improve eating disorder research and care.
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Brady robards
Associate Professor in Sociology
Brady's research sits between the sociology of youth and a cultural sociology of digital media. He's interested in how young people use and thus produce digital social media, such as on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, and how social media come to serve as sites of identity-work and archival memory constituted through digital traces.
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Nicky jacobs
Associate Professor, Psychology and Counselling
Nicky co-ordinates the Master of Counselling program which is delivered in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong and has published and lectured extensively on a variety of topics related to psychology and education. She has a strong background in Education and Developmental psychology which resulted from her work as a special education teacher of socially and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.
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Susan carland
Director, Bachelor of Global Studies, and Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics
Susan's research and teaching specialties focus on gender, sociology, contemporary Australia, terrorism, and Islam in the modern world. Susan hosted the “Assumptions” series on ABC’s Radio National, and was named one of the 20 Most Influential Australian Female Voices in 2012 by The Age.
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