UK Study: Screens Harm Babies' Development | UCL Research
Explore UCL's Children of the 2020s study showing 72% of UK babies face daily screens, linked to language delays. Implications for early childhood education in UK universities.
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Dr Laurel Fish is a Research Fellow at University College London in the Department of Psychology and Language Sciences. She holds a PhD from King’s College London in Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatry, completed between 2018 and 2021, and an MSc in Neuroscience from the same institution. Her academic background also includes a BSc in Psychology with Neuropsychology.
Dr Fish’s research focuses on child development, epigenetics, and longitudinal studies, including work on screen time effects in toddlers and early autism development. She has contributed as a co-author to studies published in connection with the Children of the 2020s study and related projects at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
Explore UCL's Children of the 2020s study showing 72% of UK babies face daily screens, linked to language delays. Implications for early childhood education in UK universities.
New UCL-led research uncovers 72% of nine-month-old UK babies exposed to daily screens, averaging 41 minutes. Explore findings, implications for development, and university insights.