Beth Bell

Associate Professor (Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing) at the University of York (UK).

Research Expertise

Psychology
HCI
Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Social Psychology
Gender Studies
Applied Psychology
Communication
Cultural Studies
Sociology and Political Science
Human-Computer Interaction
Health Informatics
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Health (social science)

About

My aim is to understand and improve youth mental health in the digital age. Currently, I am employed as a Senior Lecturer /Associate Professor at the University of York (UK), where I lead on Impact and Knowledge Exchange Lead strategy for the Department of Education. As an experienced research leader, I have strong expertise conducting qualitative and quantitative sensitive topic research with young people, including co-production. My research focuses on sociocultural influences on youth mental health, covering pressing issues such as body image, online help-seeking, and harassment. I regularly contribute my expertise to media (e.g., The Truth About... BBC) and provide consultation to industry/policy makers.

Publications

Does Media Type Matter? The Role of Identification in Adolescent Girls’ Media Consumption and the Impact of Different Thin-Ideal Media on Body Image
Sex Roles
2011
The impact of thin models in music videos on adolescent girls’ body dissatisfaction
Body Image
2007
Objectifying fitness: A content and thematic analysis of #fitspiration images on social media.
Psychology of Popular Media Culture
2018
Selfie-Objectification: Self-Objectification and Positive Feedback (“Likes”) are Associated with Frequency of Posting Sexually Objectifying Self-Images on Social Media
Body Image
2018
“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development
Journal of Adolescent Research
2019
“You take fifty photos, delete forty nine and use one”: A qualitative study of adolescent image-sharing practices on social media
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
2019
Understanding the Role of Healthy Eating and Fitness Mobile Apps in the Formation of Maladaptive Eating and Exercise Behaviors in Young People
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
2019
Working with Teenagers within HCI Research: Understanding Teen-Computer Interaction
Electronic Workshops in Computing
2014
Planning to Save the Planet
Environment and Behavior
2016
Understanding Adolescents
Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers
2016
When you think of exercising, you don’t really want to think of puking, tears, and pain’: Young adolescents’ understanding of fitness and #fitspiration
Journal of Health Psychology
2019
Digital Bodies: A controlled evaluation of a brief classroom‐based intervention for reducing negative body image among adolescents in the digital age
British Journal of Educational Psychology
2021
Shaping the Design of Smartphone-Based Interventions for Self-Harm
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2020
Understanding teen UX
CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2014
“It’s Better Saying I Look Fat Instead of Saying You Look Fat”: A Qualitative Study of U.K. Adolescents’ Understanding of Appearance-Related Interactions on Social Media
Journal of Adolescent Research
2021
Working with Teenagers in HCI Research: A Reflection on Techniques Used in the Taking on the Teenagers Project
Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers
2016
Behaviour change interventions
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
2013
Introduction: HCI Reaches Adolescence
Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers
2016
Social comparisons on social media: The impact of Facebook on young women's body image concerns and mood
Body Image
2015
Body talk in the digital age: A controlled evaluation of a classroom-based intervention to reduce appearance commentary and improve body image
Health Psychology Open
2021
Teenagers talking about technologies
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2013
Democratic citizenship, critical literacy and educational policy in England: a conceptual paradox?
Cambridge Journal of Education
2021
Integrating Dark Patterns into the 4Cs of Online Risk in the Context of Young People and Mobile Gaming Apps
Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021
2021
Human health impacts in the life cycle of future European electricity generation
Energy Policy
2014
Detecting Mental Health Behaviors Using Mobile Interactions: Exploratory Study Focusing on Binge Eating
JMIR Mental Health
2022
"Just Shave It Off"
International Journal of Mens Social and Community Health
2021

Education

University of Sussex

PhD Psychology

Brighton
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