Publications and media

Some of the publications and media that have come out of the SMART Schools project.

Papers

Victoria A. Goodyear, Amie Randhawa, Péymane Adab, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sally Fenton, Kirsty Jones, Maria Michail,  Breanna Morrison, Paul Patterson, Jonathan Quinlan, Alice Sitch, Rebecca Twardochleb, Matthew Wade, Miranda Pallan (2025): School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study, The Lancet Regional Health Europe https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(25)00003-1/fulltext 

Amie Randhawa, Miranda Pallan, Rebecca Twardochleb, Peymane Adab, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sally Fenton, Kirsty Jones, Maria Michail, Paul Patterson, Alice Sitch, Matthew Wade & Victoria A. Goodyear (2024): Secondary school smartphone policies in England: a descriptive analysis of how schools rationalize, design, and implement restrictive and permissive phone policies, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2024.2363204. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15391523.2024.2363204 

Randhawa A, Wood G, Michail M, Pallan M, Patterson P, Goodyear V. Safeguarding in adolescent mental health research: navigating dilemmas and developing procedures. BMJ open. 2024 Feb 1;14(2):e076700. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076700. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/14/2/e076700.full.pdf

Wood G, Goodyear V, Adab P, Al-Janabi H, Fenton S, Jones K, Michail M, Morrison B, Patterson P, Sitch AJ, Wade M, Pallan M. Smartphones, social Media and Adolescent mental well-being: the impact of school policies Restricting dayTime use-protocol for a natural experimental observational study using mixed methods at secondary schools in England (SMART Schools Study). BMJ Open. 2023 Jul 5;13(7):e075832. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075832. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10335462/pdf/bmjopen-2023-075832.pdf

Blogs

Podcast