drs. SK (Scarlett) Slagter

Biography

Scarlett Slagter is a post-doctoral researcher at the Erasmus Movez Lab, a research team which aims to promote young people’s digital media literacy and wellbeing. Scarlett uses participatory action research within this team to explore, together with young people, the connections between their offline and online worlds. To what extent do these worlds influence each other? Do potential interactions between offline and online factors contribute to maintaining or exacerbating inequalities in physical, mental, and social health? We aim to develop peer-led interventions that enable young people to address their own challenges, thereby contributing to an online world that positively supports and inspires every young person.

Scarlett holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychobiology and obtained her Research Master’s in Developmental Psychology and Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019, Scarlett started her Ph.D. project embedded in the SOCIAL SMART project, as member of the Connected Minds lab at the University of Amsterdam. Here she investigated the social learning strategies of adolescents—specifically, she investigated when and whom adolescents turn to for behavioral guidance. Her she hoped to help adolescents navigate their social environment in a smart way, enabling them to make well-informed decisions with the support of selective social guidance.