Digital Families

Sarah Doherty is a Digital entrepreneur, Enurture youth lead  and owner of Sarah Doherty online. Sarah offers creative digital solutions to a range of individuals, businesses, and organisations, spanning the digital field including; consultancy, web design, app development, together with graphic design. Her two greatest passions in life are mental health and technology. She is interested in how technology influences people especially young people, and how it could possibly be used to educate and even help people in regards to their mental health, especially with in the ethnic community. She believes that mental health should be talked about freely in society. She has recently spoken at an event to promote women in STEM to young girls at Nottingham University, School of Computer Science. And presented at the Association for child and adolescent mental health in Scotland.

Prof Abigail Locke is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Bradford as well as being acting Associate Dean for Research & Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Management, Law & Social Sciences. Abigail is a critical social/health psychologist, often applying a discursive lens to her research and has interests around gender, identity, parenting, social media and health. Much of her research work focuses on societal constructions of ‘good’ motherhood’ and ‘good fatherhood’, and she has applied this lens to issues around stay-at-home-dads, advice to parents, infant feeding and the timing of motherhood. Externally, Abigail is Chair Elect of the BPS Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES), Secretary of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), as well as being a founding member of the newly formed European Association for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology. (EQuiP).

Yvonne Ehrsteinis a PhD student at City University of London. Her project explores lived experiences and constructions of maternal femininities in online environments. By analysing the British parenting website Mumsnet.com both as a representation of contemporary parenting culture and as the largest UK parenting community, her research investigates cultural constructions of work-family reconciliations and how these are navigated on a subjective level.

Sophie Linington is Deputy CEO at Parent Zone where she has worked for 10 years.  Previously she worked in parenting support at the Family and Parenting Institute.  At Parent Zone, she oversees the Social Impact team, tracking and understanding the impact of emerging technologies on digital family life, and responding to them through effective interventions for parents, carers, children and young people across a wide range of online harms.  She has developed and managed a number of key Parent Zone projects including Resilient Families, funded by the Home Office Prevent Strategy, and Parent Info, a partnership with NCA-CEOP.

Mimi Tatlow-Golden is Co-Director of The Open University's Centre for Children and Young People's Wellbeing CCW@OU body, mind & media and a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology and Childhood. Her work is designed to unfold the nuance and complexities of children’s lives, experience and well-being. Currently a substantial focus of her work addresses children's well-being by examining aspects of the food and digital media systems that shape their lives, and how young people, adults and expert practitioners view them.