Multi-award-winning psychologist studying how digitalisation & social media use impact adolescent mental health.
Leading the Digital Mental Health Group at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge: one of the UK’s largest and most influential research teams studying the impact of digital environments on young people. Fellow of St. John’s College.
Research
Professor Orben investigates how digital technologies affect adolescent psychological well-being and mental health. She is particularly interested in the potential cognitive, biological and social mechanisms that underlie this link in both non-clinical and clinical populations, and the influence of individual differences. Click here to learn more about her team.
Impact & Recognition
Professor Orben has won a range of prestigious prizes including the Inaugural MRC Early Career Impact Award, the British Neuroscience Association Researcher Credibility Prize, the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Mission Award and the UK Reproducibility Network Dorothy Bishop Early Career Researcher Prize. At both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge she has received nominations for student-led teaching awards. Click here to view full CV. Click here to view Conflict of Interest disclosure.