Amira Skeggs

Selected Academic Publications and Preprints

• Skeggs, A., Mehta, A., Katiyar, T., Yap, V., Burn, A., Slovak, P., & Orben, A. (2025, June 24). Youth Perspectives on Social Media Harms: A Large-Scale Micro-Narrative Study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m38u6_v2

• Skeggs, A., Orben, A. Social media interventions to improve well-being. Nat Hum Behav 9, 1079–1089 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02167-9

• Yap, V., Skeggs, A., Ferguson, A. M., Leyland-Craggs, A., Boeschoten, L., Welbers, K., … Orben, A. (2024, November 26). Digital Data donation with Adolescents. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hnvpy

• Skeggs, A., Mehta, A., Yap, V., Ibrahim, S. B., Rhodes, C., Gross, J. J., … & Slovak, P. (2025, April). Micro-narratives: A Scalable Method for Eliciting Stories of People’s Lived Experience. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20).

• Menzies, R. E., Richmond, B., Sharpe, L., Skeggs, A., Liu, J., & Coutts‐Bain, D. (2024). The ‘revolving door’of mental illness: A meta‐analysis and systematic review of current versus lifetime rates of psychological disorders. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(2), 178-196.

• Skeggs, A., Wei, G., Landin-Romero, R. et al. The influence of culture and cognitive reserve on the clinical presentation of behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia. J Neurol 270, 3192–3203 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11638-w

Writing

• Creative:
  • The Last Drop – poem (upcoming Worple Press)
  • Abstraction – poem (Cambridge poetry)
  • Transit – poem (Cambridge poetry)
  • Micro Narratives – short story (CHI 25)
• Essays and articles:
  • Revisiting Awe in the Age of Digital Reproduction, 2025
    Berlin Review
  • Rethinking Our Lonely Heroes, 2023
    The Boston Globe
  • Digital solutions to Australia’s youth mental health crisis, 2023
    The Policymaker, James Martin Institute for Public Policy

Exhibitions/Commissions

• ‘Tides’ – Mixed media, Rivers of Film Festival

Selected Press

• The Secret to Scrolling Less
  Vox, 2025
• Fight signs of dementia by learning a language
  The Australian, 2023
• Culturally diverse people might resist frontotemporal dementia symptoms for longer
  Medical Xpress, 2023

For a complete copy of my CV and recent work please get in touch.