Kylie J Stevenson

I am an associate investigator with the national ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child with research expertise in young children's lived experience of digital technologies. My broad field of research is media and communications. I have also conducted research about creativity and knowledge creation in higher degrees with a particular focus on creative practice-led pedagogy. My research approach applies qualitative and creative methodologies, is often ethnographic, and investigates people's lived experience. I am editor in chief of Media International Australia Journal, and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children (2021) and Digitising Early Childhood (2019). My most recent publication is the co-authored book Digital Media Use in Early Childhood: Birth to Six (Bloomsbury, 2024). At Murdoch University, my role is Academic Chair, Graduate Research Education and Training.

In a recent research project (2022-2023), I was lead chief investigator of an industry partner research project with the LEGO Group (Asia Pacific), Digital safety and citizenship stakeholder roundtables, conducted in India, South Korea and Australia. Other past research includes contributions to ARC-funded projects: Parents and Peers, about teenagers and social media; Toddlers and Tablets, about how 0-5 children use touchscreen technology; and Hand Up, about welfare dependency, conducted with industry partner the St Vincent de Paul Society of Western Australia. Currently, I am undertaking research with the ECU and QUT nodes of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child in various projects investigating the benefits and impacts of digital technology for children's agency, creativity and wellbeing.