MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Amira Skeggs
Graduate Student
Amira.Skeggs@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
01223 766 166
Programme Leader: Amy Orben
I am a PhD student in the Digital Mental Health Group, supervised by Amy Orben. I completed my Bachelor in Advanced Studies (Psychology) at the University of Sydney and have previously worked as a clinical researcher at the Brain and Mind Centre. I am interested in examining how social media use impacts adolescent's mental health at the individual level and developing digital interventions to improve young people's wellbeing.
CBSU publications
SKEGGS, A. , Metha, A., Katiyar, T., YAP, V., Burn, A-M., Slovak, P., ORBEN, A. (In Press) Youth Perspectives on Social Media Harms: A Large-Scale Micro-Narrative Study, PsyArXiv, m38u6_v2 [Open Access]
YAP, V.Z.Y., SKEGGS, A. , FERGUSON, A.M., , LEYLAND-CRAGGS, A., Boeschoten, L., Welbers, K., KURTEN, S., ORBEN, A. (2025) Digital Data Donation With Adolescents, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: 1554(1), 251-266 [Open Access]
Dodds, C.M., HENSON, R.N., Suckling, J., Miskowiak, K.W., Ooi, C., Tait, R., Soltesz, F., Lawrence, P., Bentley, G., Maltby, K.,Skeggs, A. , Miller, S.R., McHugh, S., Bullmore, E.T., Nathan, P.J. (2013) Effects of the BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism and Met Allele Load on Declarative Memory Related Neural Networks, Plos One, 8(11), e7133 [Open Access]
YAP, V.Z.Y., SKEGGS, A. , FERGUSON, A.M., , LEYLAND-CRAGGS, A., Boeschoten, L., Welbers, K., KURTEN, S., ORBEN, A. (2025) Digital Data Donation With Adolescents, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: 1554(1), 251-266 [Open Access]
Dodds, C.M., HENSON, R.N., Suckling, J., Miskowiak, K.W., Ooi, C., Tait, R., Soltesz, F., Lawrence, P., Bentley, G., Maltby, K.,Skeggs, A. , Miller, S.R., McHugh, S., Bullmore, E.T., Nathan, P.J. (2013) Effects of the BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism and Met Allele Load on Declarative Memory Related Neural Networks, Plos One, 8(11), e7133 [Open Access]
