Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Creative Writing, Education, and Youth Mental Health York St John University in United Kingdom

Durham University is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Education focused on young people's mental health and wellbeing . The role sits within an Horizon-funded 5-year European study developing evidence-based mental health promotion models for young people in education, training, and work . The project is led at Durham by Professor Aimee Quickfall and runs from September 2026 to August 2031 . The successful candidate will contribute to the co-creation, piloting, and e...

2 PhD studentships are available at University College London (UCL), linked to an ERC Starting Grant in the Boda Lab at the UCL Institute of Education, London. The project examines how stereotypes spread through classroom social networks : who sees whom as “warm” or “competent,” why these perceptions persist, and how they may shape pupil outcomes and well-being . The research uses stochastic actor-oriented models and longitudinal social network analysis on new panel data from English secondary s...

PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast in emotional granularity , child and adolescent psychology , and language development . This project, titled “Words for Feelings: Exploring the Development of Emotional Granularity in Children and Adolescents,” investigates how children and adolescents learn to differentiate and label emotions with precision, and how emotional vocabulary shapes this skill over time. The research uses a mixed-methods design, combining quantitative experience sampling ...

PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast in children's awareness of mind wandering , metacognition, attention regulation, and cognitive development. This doctoral project will investigate how children develop awareness of their own attentional states, how they recognise moments of mind wandering, and how metacognitive awareness relates to learning and classroom focus. The research is grounded in Nelson and Narens’ model of metacognitive monitoring and control, and will explore how awareness...

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity in Public Health & Prevention at Edge Hill University This PhD project, Clearing the Air: Co-Producing Healthier Places for Young People Through Equitable Vaping Prevention in Blackburn with Darwen , is an applied, community-focused research opportunity within the Department of Psychology at Edge Hill University. The project is part of the NIHR ARC North West Coast and focuses on youth vaping prevention, public health, and prevention science. The successful PhD resea...