Dr Jacqueline Harding

Mind The Gap

07 July 2016, 11:00am-12:15pm
HUBS The Stage

In considering the 'gap' between mindful, calm behaviours amongst children and their rapid-fire media consumption, the panel will look at how young people’s lives have altered with rapid technological change and debate just how effective mindfulness and other ‘slow-down’ methods might be to children’s wellbeing while also considering the challenges to mindfulness put forward by some opponents. Do we just need to ‘get with the times’ or should we chill out – and how does media consumption reflect that? Using a research perspective, the panel will consider whether programme content, pace and style of production needs to accommodate or provide…