Community Scholar Program

Research on technology and youth mental health spans institutions, disciplines, and time zones. TYDE’s Community Scholar Program brings researchers together to create a shared space for collaboration, connection, and the cross-institutional conversations that move a field forward.

Community Scholar Program

TYDE (Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment) is the University of Virginia’s pan-university initiative on youth, mental health, and digital technology. Our Community Scholar Program is an invitation to researchers outside of UVA to join a growing cross-institutional community: to share work, find collaborators, and help shape a field that needs more connection across its parts.

Scholars get access to TYDE’s seminar programming, a listing in our Community Scholar researcher directory, a network of colleagues working on related questions, and a point of contact at TYDE who can help you find the right connections.

Community Scholar Program FAQ

A Community Scholar is a faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, or professional researcher at an institution outside UVA whose scholarship touches on technology and youth mental health. Note that this affiliation applies to the individual and not his or her institution. Scholars remain fully employed by their home institutions; affiliation with TYDE is a scholarly relationship, not an employment or training arrangement.

A listing in the TYDE Community Scholar Directory, so funders and collaborators can find you. Membership in our affiliate listserv, where we share funding calls, new publications, and network news. Standing invitations to TYDE’s monthly seminar series on digital health methods and research, with hybrid access for those outside Charlottesville. An invitation to schedule a welcome call with someone on the TYDE team to talk through your work and where the network might be useful to you. And depending on your interests, opportunities to present your own research at a seminar, join a TYDE-organized conference panel, or be connected to researchers at UVA or elsewhere in the network who are working on related questions.

Researchers with active scholarly work on technology and youth mental health, digital wellbeing, or adjacent areas, especially those who’d benefit from more connection to a community working on similar problems. We review applications for fit with TYDE’s mission, but we’re casting a wide disciplinary net: psychology, public health, communication, computer science, education, medicine, and beyond are all welcome.

You’ll receive an email inviting you to schedule an optional Zoom call with a TYDE staff member, where you can share about your research and what you’re hoping to get out of the network. From there, you’ll be added to the directory and listserv and start receiving seminar invitations. We’ll flag introductions or opportunities we think are a good fit for you as they come up.

Our Community Scholars