We host regular lectures with speakers from around the world covering diverse disciplines, as well as experts from within our Department for Health and Department of Social & Policy Sciences.
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2024/25 seminars
November
Kids Online – Where Commercial & Digital Determinants of Health Intersect: Objective research from Aotearoa
- Host: Professor Louise Signal, University of Otago (New Zealand)
- Date: Thursday 28 December 2024
- Time: 3.15pm - 5.15pm
- Location: Chancellors' Building, Room 3.1 and online via Teams
This seminar is organised by the Centre for 21st Century Public Health and the Centre for Sport, Physical Activity and Health Equality (SPHERE). The online world affords children many benefits while simultaneously exposing them to harm, including marketing for tobacco, e-cigarettes, alcohol, junk food and gambling. Yet globally there is a dearth of objective research on children’s real-time online experiences.
Professor Signal presents the methods and initial data from Kids Online Aotearoa, an objective study of the nature and extent of children’s online world. A strategic sample of 156 12-year-olds from schools in the Wellington region of Aotearoa (New Zealand), used Zoom video conferencing software to record their online world for four days. The findings indicate an urgent need for national regulation of the online world to protect the rights of children and ensure their health and wellbeing.