{"id":197,"date":"2015-09-22T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T10:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-09-22T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T10:21:34","slug":"ultsec-innovation-fund-2015-social-media-theres-a-time-and-a-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2015\/09\/22\/ultsec-innovation-fund-2015-social-media-theres-a-time-and-a-place\/","title":{"rendered":"ULTSEC innovation fund 2015: Social media \u2013 there\u2019s a time and a place!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2015\/09\/debbie-bevitt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2015\/09\/debbie-bevitt-130x150.jpg\" alt=\"debbie bevitt\" width=\"130\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Dr Debbie Bevitt as project lead with\u00a0Dr Nick\u00a0Morris\u00a0from the School of\u00a0Biomedical Sciences\u00a0have been awarded a 2014\/15 ULTSEC Innovation Fund (\u00a32504) to investigate\u00a0\u201cSocial media &#8211; there&#8217;s a time and a place\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There are many examples of positive uses of social media to enhance education, but regular distraction by social media can also have a negative impact on learning.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of our project is to investigate students\u2019 self-awareness of their own social media use and the impact it has on their concentration.\u00a0 We also aim to identify strategies which help students to self-regulate these distractions and to evaluate the value of self-control apps (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/selfcontrolapp.com\/\"><u>https:\/\/selfcontrolapp.com<\/u><\/a>) in this context.\u00a0 We hope this pilot will form the basis of a more extensive cross-disciplinary study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Debbie Bevitt as project lead with\u00a0Dr Nick\u00a0Morris\u00a0from the School of\u00a0Biomedical Sciences\u00a0have been awarded a 2014\/15 ULTSEC Innovation Fund (\u00a32504) to investigate\u00a0\u201cSocial media &#8211; there&#8217;s a time and a place\u201d. There are many examples of positive uses of social media &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2015\/09\/22\/ultsec-innovation-fund-2015-social-media-theres-a-time-and-a-place\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding-opp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}