Publications
Wilson, M (2023) " Digital Access Inequality among Vulnerable Children and Young People: Did the pandemic cause a snowball effect?” in Hayes, S., Jopling, M., Connor, S., & Johnson, M. (Eds.) (2023). Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community: Enabling Cross-Sector Environments for Postdigital Inclusion. Cham: Springer. (Forthcoming)
Wilson M & Perez Vallejos, E (2021) The Role of Neuroscience in the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Relation to Risk Taking, with Specific Reference to Risk Assessment During a Pandemic, a Review of the Literature
ACTO Conference June 2021 "What can we learn, from the pandemic, about closing the digital divide for Children and Young People needing mental health interventions."
3 Min presentation May 2012 " Vulnerability, Lockdown & the Pandemic; The effects on Children & Young People"
LTS Conference April 2021 Less can be more- Telling your story through Zoom; observations on power dynamics in story-telling with Children and Young people during therapeutic interventions through the pandemic."
Exploring how Component Factors and their Uncertainty Affect Judgements of Risk in Cyber-Security
The Digital divide - Children & Young People
The study on Children & Young People's access to the internet showed a digital divide between the most and least vulnerable CYP in the UK.
Published in
Wilson, M (2023) " Digital Access Inequality among Vulnerable Children and Young People: Did the pandemic cause a snowball effect?” in Hayes, S., Jopling, M., Connor, S., & Johnson, M. (Eds.) (2023). Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community: Enabling Cross-Sector Environments for Postdigital Inclusion. Cham: Springer. (Forthcoming)
The loss of protective factors for Children and Young People in the pandemic
The study on Children & Young People's contact with family, friends and social networks during the pandemic showed that all CYP had reduced contact with protective factors such as family, friends, clubs, sports and religious groups.
This was despite recommendations to governments about ensuring that such contacts were promoted via digital means, CYP's contact with clubs, sports and religious groups dropped dramatically and very little online interaction was provided. CYP did tend to maintain the highest level of contact with their friends and cousins, but were unhappy with the loss on in person contact.
For many CYP contact with their grandparents was not maintained once the UK went into lockdown.