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Dr. Hannah Kirk is a Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Monash University's Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health in Melbourne. She leads the Child Development and Digital Technologies (CDDT) Lab and serves as Deputy Director of the Neurodevelopment Research Theme. With a PhD in Psychological Sciences from Monash, her research focuses on how digital technologies and environmental changes impact children’s mental health, cognitive development, and learning, particularly for neurodivergent and rural/remote children. She co-invented a FDA-approved digital attention intervention for neurodivergent children and pioneered eco-anxiety assessment tools for primary schoolers.
Dr. Kirk has held roles like Chief Research Officer at Tali Digital (2016–2018), advancing digital health tools. Her awards include the NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (2018–2022) and ABC Radio National’s Top 5 Scientists (2019). She actively collaborates on projects like ADHD studies in Indigenous Australian children and youth mental health programs in Malaysia.
Her research spans 25+ publications, with recent work on post-pandemic cognition recovery and ADHD’s social impacts. She supervises Honours and HDR students, mentors through PsychSec, and engages in public outreach via media interviews and conferences.
