Published Jun 12 2020

Until We Tweet Again: What Happens Next? podcast on social media and mental health

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. 

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About the Authors

  • Gemma sharp

    NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Fellow, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Monash University

    Gemma is an Associate Professor and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator in the Department of Neuroscience, where she leads the Body Image & Eating Disorders Research Group. She is also a senior clinical psychologist and research lead at Alfred Health where she specialises in the treatment of eating disorders. Associate Professor Sharp originally trained as a molecular biologist, graduating with a Masters degree in Oncology from the University of Cambridge. She then transitioned to a career in clinical psychology and was awarded a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Flinders University.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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