High Degree Researchers Drinking coffee. This show is designed for academics to put their research interests in the spotlight. Please sit, learn, and enjoy a cuppa while we do to. George Thomas is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation (HWCRI) at the University of Queensland. George is interested in supporting parents with young children and their screen time, secondly the measurement of 24hr movement behaviours among children, and thirdly (timely and new) - sport. We discuss how to measure screen time (its not just your phone) and how engagement with the screen needs to be considered and not just the time in front of it, his research journey from beginning until now (including some football highlights), parents emotion and concern with their childrens screen time, the use of automated wearable cameras in collecting behavioural data and much more. As someone from Britain, he has seen more of Australia than most east coasters and worked over in Perth before coming back to Brisbane. He is passionate about not making screens the enemy, but supporting parents to understand that screens and tech can be used in a fruitful way. George’s overall message – if you are a patent, you are already doing a great job! His order – British Black Cup of Tea (no biscuits).

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Research profile - https://hmns.uq.edu.au/profile/7959/george-thomas

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-thomas-14b93659/

Journal article to read - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12187-019-09663-1

TV recommendation - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31806037/