*New* Huo Family Foundation Grants on Effects of Digital Technology in Children (4/2/25)

Posted: 2/21/2025 (Funding)

There has been a broad array of research efforts to measure the amount of usage of digital technology (e.g. total screen time) and the observed effects and impact on health. Despite these efforts, the full implications – both positive and negative – on human physiology, psychology, behaviour, well-being and mental health remain unclear.   To address this gap, the Huo Family Foundation invites applications for special projects on “The Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People.”

These larger and longer-term research awards would allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. Proposals should be tackling key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behaviour and interactions, and mental health of children and young people.

Awarded research grants in this area can be held at colleges, universities and research institutes in the UK and in the US.

OR Internal deadline: 4/2/2025

OSP deadline: 5/14/2025

Sponsor deadline: 5/23/25

Learn more here.