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Amy Orben
Orben lectures for the University of Basel in 2020
Alma mater University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Scientific career
Institutions Emmanuel College, Cambridge
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Thesis Teens, screens and well-being : an improved approach. (2019)
Website Amy Orben

Amy Orben is a British experimental psychologist who is a group leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Her research considers how digital technologies impact adolescent mental health. Orben was awarded the British Neuroscience Association Researcher Credibility Prize in 2021 and the inaugural Medical Research Council Impact Prize in 2023.

Early life and education

Orben was an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge where she studied natural sciences. She moved to the University of Oxford for graduate studies, where she specialised in experimental psychology. [1] During her doctoral research, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Tübingen and Eindhoven University of Technology. After completing her doctorate Orben was made a Cambridge Research Fellow at Emmanuel College. [2]

Research and career

In 2021, Orben was appointed a programme leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. [3] Her research considers novel methodologies to understand how screen time and use of social media impacts psychological well-being in adolescents. [4] Post-millennial mental health (in particular stress, depression and anxiety) is reportedly worse than in previous generations, which is often attributed to social media. Orben showed that this wasn't the entire story: statistically speaking, eating a potato every day had a worse impact on well-being. [5] She argued that social media can be helpful in times of anxiety and loneliness. [6] Orben believes that significant quantities of high quality data about how children engage with technology could be provided by technology giants such as Google and Facebook. [7] [8]

Orben has criticised several of the methodologies currently being used, which largely rely on self-report methods and generate incorrect results. [9] [7] She is also an advocate for open science, and created ReproducibiliTea, [10] an international journal club for researchers to discuss improving science. [11]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

  • Amy Orben; Andrew Przybylski (14 January 2019). "The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use". Nature Human Behaviour. 3 (2): 173–182. doi: 10.1038/S41562-018-0506-1. ISSN  2397-3374. PMID  30944443. Wikidata  Q92830198.
  • Amy Orben; Livia Tomova; Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (12 June 2020). "The effects of social deprivation on adolescent development and mental health". The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30186-3. ISSN  2352-4642. PMC  7292584. PMID  32540024. Wikidata  Q96427197.
  • Amy Orben; Tobias Dienlin; Andrew Przybylski (6 May 2019). "Social media's enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116 (21): 10226–10228. doi: 10.1073/PNAS.1902058116. ISSN  0027-8424. PMC  6534991. PMID  31061122. Wikidata  Q91803322.

References

  1. ^ "Amy Orben". The Queen's College, Oxford. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  2. ^ "Amy Orben | Cumberland Lodge". www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  3. ^ "Dr Amy Orben appointed as Programme Track Leader Scientist". www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  4. ^ Orben, Amy (2020-04-01). "Teenagers, screens and social media: a narrative review of reviews and key studies". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 55 (4): 407–414. doi: 10.1007/s00127-019-01825-4. ISSN  1433-9285. PMID  31925481. S2CID  210123027.
  5. ^ Orben, Amy (2020-04-26). "Don't despair if your child is glued to a screen, it may be keeping them sane". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  6. ^ "In touch with their emotions and extremely online—here's what you need to know about Gen Z". Prospect Magazine. Archived from the original on 2021-12-09.
  7. ^ a b "Amy Orben: 'To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope'". the Guardian. 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  8. ^ "The Question We've Stopped Asking About Teen-Agers and Social Media". The New Yorker. 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  9. ^ a b "Amy Orben honoured". The Psychologist. British Psychological Society. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  10. ^ Orben, Amy (2019-09-24). "A journal club to fix science". Nature. 573 (7775): 465. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02842-8. PMID  31551562. S2CID  202733672.
  11. ^ "ReproducibiliTea". Open Science Framework. 2018-06-05.
  12. ^ "TechWomen50 Awards: 2017 Winners". WeAreTechWomen - Supporting Women in Technology. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  13. ^ "Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology". British Psychological Society. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  14. ^ "Awards". Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  15. ^ "Winners of the 2021 Credibility Prize". British Neuroscience Association. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  16. ^ "ACAMH Awards 2021 Results". ACAMH. 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  17. ^ "MRC awards inaugural Impact Prizes". News. Medical Research Council. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
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