Dr. Shawcroft’s research focuses around better understanding how technology fits into the lives of children and their families. She is specifically focused on understanding the role of broader context, family-level processes, and individual differences in shaping family and child technology use. Combining perspectives from Human Development and Communication, she focuses on outcomes such as well-being, the development of executive functions, and children’s relationship with technology. To do this she uses primarily longitudinal methods, including shorter-term experience sampling methods and long-lag panel data.