Laura Gurri is a doctoral researcher at the University of Basel and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research Department of the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK). With a background in trauma research, she developed a strong interest in digital media in family contexts during her master’s thesis, where she studied how parental phubbing affects parent-child interaction in a controlled laboratory setting.

She is currently pursuing her PhD within the SNSF-funded longitudinal SWIPE follow-up study on preschoolers’ screen exposure in Switzerland. Her research focuses on how contextual and content-related aspects of children’s digital media use relate to socio-emotional, language, and motor development, going beyond traditional indicators such as screen time. The SWIPE project uses a comprehensive longitudinal multi-method design, including objective data, ecological momentary assessment and laboratory assessments, to investigate how children’s digital media use relates to their development over time.