Ana Kubrusly is a PhD-candidate in Communication Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

Her research focuses on children’s and adolescents’ relationships with digital environments, namely in terms of their literacy, skills, well-being, and digital cultures.

Ana’s PhD is funded by an FCT individual grant hosted at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA) and at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. She is supervised by Professor Susana Batista and Professor Lídia Marôpo. To access details about her funding visit: https://doi.org/10.54499/PRT/BD/154767/2023

Her dissertation project, entitled “Digital well-being according to youth: perspectives, strategies, and recommendations”, aims to adopt a child-centric perspective on digital well-being, employing mixed methods to better understand how Portuguese children conceptualize, manage, and imagine their own digital well-being. With this project, Ana plans to co-construct an agenda for children’s digital well-being with the participants in her study.

Ana is also a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies (York University, Canada) where she participates in the Questioning KidTech international research project. Ana is a writer in the CriA.On platform, aimed at sharing scientific information about children’s and adolescents’ digital cultures, skills, and rights.