Listen to Director Isabela Granic speak with Ian McGilchrist in Conversations on Remaking the World about Intergenerational Collaborations for a World Unravelling.
GEMH 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.
The 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.
Last 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.
Recently, 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!
We 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!
An 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.
Hanneke 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.
On 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.
On 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.