Professor Amy Orben

I think in this space, they'll always have to be gambles, policy gambles based on the best evidence available.

We are running a world first trial up in Bradford where thousands of school children will be randomized in whole school year groups to either just use social media as they did before or to be given a curfew on their social media use and a reduction.

And that will happen in the fall.

And the plan was that in early 2027, we could then give some of that really important causal evidence or evidence

leading onto that causal evidence around whether social media might be impacting young people and how that intervention works.

So we will do it all in the autumn and be done by December.

Well, I think the first thing is to think about what outcome variables really matter.

And I think here the ban is really marketed in a way as a silver bullet for a lot of different issues.

So we're talking about mental health and well-being, but...

There are arguments around educational outcomes, bullying, health, eye health, sleep.

And so the first bit is actually thinking about what does success look like?

I don't know, Kat, if you want to discuss different populations as well.