Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The foundation will consider only ONE special project proposal from each lead institution.

Special Projects – Grant Application Information
Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People

Background and motivation 
A long-standing interest of HFF has been the effect and impact of usage of digital technology on young people. The rapid rise and use of this technology has permeated much of society and transformed the way many humans interact.

There has been a broad array of research efforts that mostly have involved relatively crude measures of the amount of usage of digital technology (e.g. total screen time) and the observed effects and impact on health. Despite these efforts, the full implications – both positive and negative – on human physiology, psychology, behaviour, well-being and mental health remain unclear.   

We believe there is an opportunity to help advance the research and the field of knowledge in this area, both by strengthening existing as well as creating new methods and approaches to better model and unpick the complexities of this topic.

HFF is establishing a research portfolio on the Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People.

Funding opportunity
The Huo Family Foundation invites applications for special projects. These larger and longer-term research awards would allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. 

Proposals should be tackling key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behaviour and interactions, and mental health of children and young people.

Awarded research grants in this area can be held at colleges, universities and research institutes in the UK and in the US.

We are keen to support multi-disciplinary work. These teams may consist of several group leaders from one institution, or different institutions in the UK and the US. 

Online Application: https://huofamilyfoundation.org/our-grants/special-projects/

Please send your grant proposal in digital format to Tom Newman, Executive Director, at tnewman@apsa.org. The most common grant amount is $20,000. The mission of the American Psychoanalytic Foundation (APF) is to sponsor programs that promote a better understanding of psychoanalysis and encourage effective and innovative dissemination of psychoanalytic ideas and services to the mental health community and the public. Through its grants, APF seeks to build the reputation of psychoanalysis as a powerful therapeutic and research instrument that can be applied to a wide range of individual behaviors and cultural phenomena. To ensure competitive consideration, proposed programs should:

• Use creative approaches to promote psychoanalytic ideas and services
• Feature a new program rather than a regular activity of a society or institute
• Applies to other psychoanalytic institutes, societies and centers

Emailed application: https://apsa.org/fellowships-awards/american-psychoanalytic-foundation-grants/