Research Officer—Digital Futures for Children centre

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Salary from £43,277 to £51,714 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £55,497 pa inclusive of London allowance

Funding is available to support this position until December 2028.

This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), until December 2028.

DigiPulse is an innovative three-year longitudinal, international research project investigating the real-time relationships between children’s smartphone use and their wellbeing, with data collected in the UK, Brazil and Kenya. The project combines passive smartphone tracking, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and longitudinal surveys with around 750 children and young people aged 10–17

The Research Officer will play a central role in the project’s management, development, data collection and analysis. The role carries particular responsibility for developing and refining EMA instruments, contributing to the research literature and hypotheses, and supporting participatory and consultative work with children, as well as conducting statistical analysis and producing research findings, working closely with partners in the UK, Brazil and Kenya.

Candidates should have:

• a completed PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. media and communications, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, or computational/data social science);
• experience of developing surveys and/or questionnaire instruments;
• experience of designing and/or conducting longitudinal research studies
• and experience with EMA, experience-sampling or other intensive longitudinal data collection methods.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please click the 'Apply' button above. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email k.g.ringmar-sylwander@lse.ac.uk

The closing date for receipt of applications is 22 July 2026 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

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