Beyond Screen Time: Understanding Child Development

Child Development

Beyond Screen Time: Understanding Child Development – New Curtin University research challenges views on screen time, revealing factors such as parental mental health and the type of screen being used may have some impact on child development. Led by Dr Amber Beynon and Dr Juliana Zabatiero from the Curtin School of Allied Health, the research […]

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Hybrid workers spend 12 hours per day on screens

Hybrid workers

Hybrid workers spend 12 hours per day on screens: This World Sight Day (12th October), Specsavers has released new research which suggests that UK hybrid workers spend an average of twelve hours a day, or sixty hours of a working week, glued to their screens. With 44% of Britain’s workforce now working remotely or in hybrid-office […]

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Children at risk of long-term eye problems

eye problems

Children at risk of long-term eye problems after spending over five hours a day on screens during summer holidays. Worrying new research has shown that more than a third of children (36%) are being exposed to potential eye health problems over the school holidays after spending over five hours a day glued to screens. A […]

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