DrMelissa Bohnert

Dr. Melissa Bohnert is an Assistant Professor in the UCD School of Education and Ad Astra Fellow in Children's DIgital Futures. Prior to the professorship, Dr. Bohnert received her PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin with her thesis 'Child and adolescent digital use and well-being outcomes: Evidence from an Irish birth-cohort study', and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Children's School Lives (CSL) project at UCD. She has also been involved with a number of national and international projects, including the EU-funded DIGYMATEX project, and has receieved funding from the Irish Research Council. Dr. Bohnert also holds an MSc in 'Social Research Methods' from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and bachelor's degree in 'Sociology with Quantitative Methods' from the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Bohnert's research interests are predominately in the areas of digitalisation, child and adolescent wellbeing, and quantitative methodologies. Her research aims to investigate how digital technologies will shape the lives, opportunities, challenges, and societal roles of children as they grow up in increasingly interconnected, digitised environments.