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Jane Shawcroft

Jane Shawcroft

Jane Shawcroft

Assistant Professor

shawcroft.1@osu.edu

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.