The Mental Health Collective is looking for 14, 15 and 16-year-olds to join them for some work experience in March and early April.
Students are invited to take part in an exciting project called Phone Zombies about mental health, mobile phones and moral panic. Are mobile phones disconnecting us from each other, zoning us out and damaging our mental health? Are we turning into phone zombies? Or is this a moral panic – like in the 1950s when people thought that rock and roll music was poisoning teenagers’ brains?
Young people can volunteer either on their own or with friends. They can join one of three teams:
Film making team
This team will make some zombie movies about people on their phones. The team needs people to act in and make the films. There will be a film premiere on Sunday 31 March at the Crouch End Picture House – on a proper big cinema screen.
Research team
This team will help get to the bottom of what’s really going on with mobile phones and mental health. They'll get involved in real, on-the-ground research to help the Mental Health Collective to figure out the key questions, write a report that will be published on the Mental Health Collective website, and be acknowledged as authors.
Marketing and Communications team
This team will lead on promoting the films and research report, so they reach the widest possible audience – getting people along to the launch event at the cinema and sharing materials online. An April Fool’s Day joke is planned which will be the crescendo for this project.
Planning sessions will take place at the Highgate Cricket and Lawn Tennis club, off Park Road – just next to Highgate Wood school (W7 bus, nearest tube is Highgate). The Mental Health Collective is a non-profit organisation,
Find out more and register here (external link).
Key dates
Sunday 3 March, 4 – 5.30pm
Sunday 10 March, 4– 5.30pm
Sunday 17 March, 4 – 5.30pm
Sunday 24 March, 4.30 – 5.30pm
Sunday 31 March, 11 – 12 noon – Film premiere and research launch, Crouch End Picture House.
Monday 1 April (morning) – April Fool’s Day joke is played (no physical meeting).
Sunday 7 April (late afternoon) Evaluation and wrap party.
