06 Feb 2023
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Leading partnership researcher Dr Simon P. Hammond profiled in Foster Care magazine
Dr Simon P. Hammond, a leading researcher in delivering innovative projects to support children and young people with care experience navigate the online world, has been featured in the latest issue of The Fostering Network’s Foster Care magazine. The feature showcases his ongoing research using digital life story work to illustrate the importance of digital inclusion, building digital resilience and encouraging participation
Digital life story work is vital to help children and young people with care experience look back on memories and make sense of their life experiences and understand who they are and how their experiences may have shaped them.
Dr Hammond’s research helped inform the Fostering Network's ‘Fostering Digital Skills for Life’, a free, CPD accredited, online training course for foster carers. The course, which is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, provides a greater understanding of the online risks and confidence to support children and young people with care experience online. The course aims to empower foster carers to make the most of technology through relationship building and communication.
Simon’s feature is on page 18 of the magazine article.
Building on this area of interest and in partnership with colleagues at University of Oxford, Royal Borough of Greenwich and The Care Leavers National Movement, Dr Hammond will be leading a research grant, award by The Sir Halley Stewart Trust, to evaluate the full extent of the impact of an award-winning app, CaringLife. CaringLife provides a digital platform for fostering services, carers and children and young people with care experience to upload and store digital mementos from everyday life.
Dr Hammond has also been commission to evaluate a Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sports (DCMS) funded pilot delivered by Internet Matters and Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The Media Literacy Taskforce funded project will develop and implement a co-designed innovative media literacy intervention for carer leavers. Dr Hammond will work with Dr Kimberley Bartholomew to evaluate the trial.
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Dr Simon P Hammond is an applied psychologist, Lecturer in Education in UEA's School of Education and Lifelong Learning and Honorary Associate Professor at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of Ofcom’s Research Working Group and United Kingdom Centre for Internet Safety (UKCIS) Vulnerable Users Working Group. He leads the Looked After Children’s Mental Health Research Network (LANTERN) within UEAHSCP. LANTERN has three priority areas aiming to provide real world impact that facilitates the positive mental health, and the availability of positive mental health support, for children and young people with care experience.
Please do email ueahscp@uea.ac.uk to find out how you can collaborate with Dr Hammond’s team.
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