Online social networks such as Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat offer many opportunities to promote healthy lifestyles among youth. One way to do this is through social influencers in their online network. The SocialMovez theme focuses on how to more effectively spread health campaigns among youth through influencers in their online social network. All while respecting the digital privacy of youth.
The articles listed below are part of the SocialMovez research theme.
Children consume a lot of sugars through sweet drinks, while there is a much easier, cheaper and healthier alternative: water from the tap! The Share H2O programme helps children to drink water more often by using the power of their social network. Do you also want children to drink water more often? Or are you curious about the programme? Click and read on!
What does youth's increasing media use mean for their well-being? What positive effects can this media use have? And how do we combat the digital divide? The Movez Lab and Netwerk Mediawijsheid are working together on these themes, towards a media-literate Dutch population. Read more about it here!
In the project "Influence!", Dr. Roel Lutkenhaus of Momentum, in collaboration with Stichting Chance to Influence and Stichting TalentzSkool, conducted research on how healthy youth perceive their living environment. The youth used all their creativity and developed a social media campaign for a healthier living environment. Curious about the research and the creations of the youth?
During our minor 'Positive behavioural change in the digital age', students from Erasmus University Rotterdam get to work on social issues of organisations. Perhaps a collaboration with our minor students can also be interesting for your organisation.
With her social network intervention Crystal Smit investigated how to intrinsically motivate peer influencers to promote desired behaviour.
Would you like to work on a societal problem for an organisation during your studies? read more about our minor 'positive behavioural change in the digital age'.
In the project "Influence!", Dr. Roel Lutkenhaus of Momentum conducted research on how healthy your peers perceive their living environment. They used all their creativity and developed social media campaigns for a healthier living environment. Curious about the research and the creations?
Wat doet een onderzoeker precies? En hoe lang moet je daarvoor studeren? Deze en andere vragen beantwoorden wij tijdens ons 'onderzoeker in de Klas' programma. Lees er hier meer over!
At the Movez Lab, we primarily conduct research on young people. For this, we ask the permission of their parents, but in what way do parents find this most preferable?
In the project "Influence!", Dr. Roel Lutkenhaus of Momentum, in collaboration with Stichting Chance to Influence and Stichting TalentzSkool, conducted research on how healthy youth perceive their living environment. The youth used all their creativity and developed a social media campaign for a healthier living environment. Curious about the research and the creations of the youth?
It is important to encourage young people to adopt healthy lifestyles because they are prone to unhealthy habits and behaviours. Researchers at the Movez Lab have therefore developed a new method to effectively reach young people through their social network for health campaigns.
Researchers from SocialMovez and children from Welzijnsorganisatie SOL in Rotterdam collaborated to develop an online chat game inspired by "Among Us." They aimed to gather feedback and creative ideas, discussing the game concept, testing a prototype, and designing new elements. Key steps included setting a clear goal, providing engaging activities, actively listening to feedback, and documenting insights to refine the design. The development team is now integrating these insights, with updates on the game's progress to follow. Stay tuned!