Recent Interviews and Blogs

TES: "What you need to know about the teenage brain, behaviour and phones" (2023)

https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/secondary/what-teachers-need-know-teenage-brain-behaviour

Learnus: "Learnus visits The Blakemore Lab at the University of Cambridge in the UK" (2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtVLakAlyLQ

The Guardian: "'Don't blame the young for being moody' - and seven other ways to nurture healthy teenage minds" (2023)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/12/dont-blame-the-young-for-being-moody-and-seven-other-ways-to-nurture-healthy-teenage-minds 

Forbes: 'Negative impact of social media for girls, boys varies by age' (2022)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2022/03/28/negative-impact-of-social-media-for-girls-boys-varies-by-age/ 

Independent: '"Parents should talk to children about social media at a young age"' (2022) 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cambridge-oxford-teenagers-university-of-cambridge-b2045496.html 

Daily Mail: 'The age your child is most vulnerable to social media' (2022)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10659029/Impact-social-media-varies-adolescence-study-finds.html 

The Telegraph: 'Social media has a negative impact on girls earlier than boys, Oxbridge study finds' (2022)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/28/social-media-has-negative-impact-girls-earlier-boys-oxbridge/ 

BBC News: 'Teenage social media use linked to less life-satisfaction for some' (2022)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60875884 

The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry: The Mystery of the Teenage Brain (2022)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014gnc 

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2022)

https://post.parliament.uk/work-with-us/opportunities/fellowships/fellowship-spotlight/sarah-jayne-blakemore-spotlight/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post-promotion_website-140222 

The Naked Scientist: 'Teenagers and Social Isolation' (2020)

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/teenagers-and-social-isolation

Radio SRF (2019)

https://www.srf.ch/kultur/wissen/neues-wissen-dank-hirnscans-weshalb-pubertierende-so-anstrengend-sind

BBC Women's Hour (2019)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003r3l 

BBC Radio 4 The Infinite Monkey Cage (2018)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pl662

The Guardian: ‘Teens get a bad rap’: the neuroscientist championing moody adolescents (2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/17/teens-get-a-bad-rap-the-neuroscientist-championing-moody-adolescents

The Guardian: ‘It is, strangely, acceptable to mock and demonise teenagers’ (2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/25/sarah-jayne-blakemore-secret-life-teenage-brain

The Guardian: Myth-busting study of teenage brains wins Royal Society prize (2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/01/study-of-teenage-brains-wins-royal-society-prize-inventing-ourselves-sarah-jayne-blakemore

The Guardian: Teenagers’ brains not ready for GCSEs, says neuroscientist (2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/29/teenagers-brains-not-ready-for-gcses-says-neuroscientist

The Royal Society: Life and research with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (2016)

https://blogs.royalsociety.org/inside-science/2016/03/08/iwd2016-life-and-research-with-sarah-jayne-blakemore/

The Telegraph: Revealed - the science behind teenage laziness (2015)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11410483/Revealed-the-science-behind-teenage-laziness.html

BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains (2015)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mrn29