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Intergenerational Collaborations for a World Unravelling
Jeanine Jennings - 10-05-2023Listen to Director Isabela Granic speak with Ian McGilchrist in Conversations on Remaking the World about Intergenerational Collaborations for a World Unravelling.
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The Bloombox Retreat
Jeanine Jennings - 01-05-2023GEMH Lab hosted a retreat to gain feedback about the Bloombox’s benefits, limitations, and opportunities for improvement. We introduced the Bloombox and demonstrated the developed methodologies, tools, and practices.
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Meet the Bloombox!
Jeanine Jennings - 28-04-2023The Bloombox is a free and open-access collection of tools to help teams and companies build science-branded, inclusive, and effective projects that promote human flourishing.
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GPT Finetuning Workshops in Copenhagen
Nastasia Griffioen - 19-04-2023Last week, Mirabelle Jones and I organised the latest iteration of our workshop study series, in which we invite Python novices and aficionados to finetune (i.e., create) their own version of GPT-3, based on personal social media posts and messages.
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GEMH's response to Jonathan Haidt's stance on social media and wellbeing
Jeanine Jennings - 28-03-2023Recently, prominent social psychologist Jonathan Haidt posted a piece about social media and teen girls’ mental health. Nastasia has her own thoughts on this, read them here!
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New: Ask GEMH Anything!
Nastasia Griffioen - 27-03-2023We are launching a new video series: Ask GEMH Anything! Send us your burning question about digital tech and wellbeing, and we'll dive into it!
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€3.7 Million awarded for interdisciplinary project on hope and climate change
Hanneke Scholten - 14-03-2023An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Twente (including our GEMH Lab co-director Hanneke Scholten) and the municipality of Amsterdam, have received €3.7 million from the National Growth Fund to explore hope as a social response to climate change.
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PRESS Play Field Research Day in Ghent
Nastasia Griffioen - 20-02-2023Hanneke and Nastasia traveled to Ghent in Belgium for a day to collect data from kids visiting the PRESS Play theatre show—a fantastical interactive experience for kids set up by our partners at Kopergietery exploring agency in the virtual world.
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GEMH Session #5 Can Video Games help Kids Grieve? with Matthew Kreutter
GEMH Lab - 31-01-2023On Jan 27th we hosted a new GEMH Session with special guest Matthew Kreutter. Together we discussed the potential of using digital play-based spaces (like Minecraft) to support grieving youth.
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Radboud Reflects Session: "Wat doet gamen met ons?"
Joanneke Weerdmeester - 16-01-2023On Nov 23rd 2022, Dr. Joanneke Weerdmeester participated in a Radboud Reflects session together with Dr. Eelke Spaak focused on the effects of gaming. Dr. Spaak's talk focused on cognition and perception, whereas Joanneke focused on mental and emotional health. The talks were followed by an in-depth discussion. Talks and discussion are in Dutch.