CeBSAP’s Professor Abigail Millings and Dr Danielle Paddock are part of the ESRC Digital Good Network (DGN), which is exploring how digital technologies can be used in ways that benefit people, society and the economy. The £4 million research network aims to advance understanding of what good digital technology looks like. To limit future harms and ensure that digital technologies have positive outcomes, the DGN is delivering an interdisciplinary, social science-led research programme centred on the urgent, neglected question of what the digital good should look like and how it can be achieved. DGN is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), as part of the ‘Living with Technology’ strategic priority and the ‘Digital Society’ priority in the 2022 plan.
Dr Paddock and Prof. Millings are currently working on a project exploring the role of mobile phones in romantic relationships. As part of this project, they have designed a longitudinal survey to assess a range of constructs relating to the topics of mobile phone use, romantic relationships, wellbeing and individual difference characteristics.
They aim to create a maximal utility dataset that can be used by other researchers to explore how mobile phones may be used for ‘good’ in romantic relationships. This research has received ethical approval and data collection is ongoing. For more information about the Digital Good Network, please visit the following website: https://digitalgood.net/.
