Dr Catherine Sebastian

Yeah.

Yeah, it's really important to understand not just the average effect.

But as you say, Tom, there might be minorities where there's a particular impact.

So we're interested in studying, for example, young people who are already experiencing mental health problems.

Is the effect different for those young people, young people living in urban versus rural environments?

For example, those in isolated communities might feel

particularly affected by the ban.

We're interested in minoritised groups, such as those from LGBTQ plus populations, because we know that young people from those groups might use social media for social support in particular.

And so I think as well as the quantitative measures that we might look at, so questionnaire measures of mental health or measures of what people are doing on their screens at any given moment, we also want to look at the qualitative data that

I mean, I think a theme that came through really clearly, if social media is being taken away, how will that affect them?

There was a really interesting question about, is it really addictive?

Will I experience vitriol symptoms?

I think there's also a really interesting piece to be done around what young people will be doing with their time instead.

I think from what I've heard, the perception that with a social media ban...

Something might be being taken away.

What is going to be put in its place?

Amy talked earlier about a cultural shift.

What does that actually mean?

So, yeah, a lot of questions.

Also, why the age of 16 has been chosen?