Nora Skjerdingstad
DPhil Candidate
I’m Nora, a DPhil student at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. I am supervised by Dr Eleanor Leigh and Professor Cathy Creswell.
My research focuses on the maintenance of social anxiety in young people, with a particular emphasis on how digital environments and social media shape the disorder. I use ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to capture real-time processes as they unfold in individuals’ daily lives, alongside experimental methods to investigate causal mechanisms in controlled settings. Through this work, I aim to better understand how online interactions and social media use influence social anxiety and how this knowledge can inform more effective interventions.
