Harry Bennett
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

• PhD in Applied Cognitive Psychology, University of Leeds (2021-2025), supervised by Professor Amanda Waterman and Professor Richard Allen.
• MSc in Psychology of Individual Differences, University of Edinburgh (2019-2020).
• BSc in Psychology, University of Leeds (2015-2019).

Research

Overview

My doctoral research focused on children’s working memory in educational settings. Its key aims were to examine how well parents understand the role of working memory in learning, how children with working memory difficulties can be identified more effectively, and how children’s working memory can feasibly be supported within the classroom.

My current research focuses on the impact of social media and smartphone use among young people, with a particular focus on how these behaviours may affect sleep, wellbeing, and cognition.

Research group(s)

SmartSleep

Supervision

• Professor Lisa Henderson

Publications

Selected publications

• Bennett, H., Allen, R., Gathercole, S., & Waterman, A. (2026). The Working Memory Classroom Screener: identifying children with working memory difficulties.
• Creaser, A. V., Bingham, D. D., Bennett, H. A. J., Costa, S., & Clemes, S. A. (2023). The development of a family-based wearable intervention using behaviour change and co-design approaches: move and connect. Public health, 217, 54–64.
• Silva DA, Smagulova K, Elsheikh A, Fouda ME and Eltawil AM (2025) A recurrent YOLOv8-based framework for event-based object detection. Front. Neurosci. 18:1477979. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1477979
• Alghrani, A., Ali, N., Allen, K., Bennett, H., Benger, L., Betts, J., ... & Waterman, A. (2024). An evidence-based plan for addressing the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) assessment and support crisis.