Psychology Cardiff Metropolitan University in United Kingdom

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...

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...

Postdoctoral Research Associate opportunity at the University of Reading in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences for the Leverhulme Trust-funded project “Literacy in the Digital Age” , led by Dr Yaling Hsiao . The project examines how children aged 11–14 learn across print and digital media , with a focus on reading and writing development . The successful candidate will lead core research using longitudinal school testing , experimental paradigms , and statistical modeling . ...

Ulster University is advertising a fully funded PhD opportunity focused on physical activity , health inequalities , and family wellbeing during the early years of parenthood. The project, titled “Babies Before Burpees: Exploring whether financial pressures shape physical activity during the early years of parenthood” , will examine how financial pressures may influence physical activity among new parents. The research will involve exploring parents’ experiences, reviewing existing evidence on p...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth (ISEY), University of East London, Stratford Campus, United Kingdom. The project focuses on shared reading , early cognitive development , attention , language development , and dual-brain EEG . It asks how caregiver-child interactions support learning, how moment-to-moment neural activity becomes coordinated during shared reading, and how interpersonal neural coordination relates to children’s attention, enga...