Digital Futures for Children centre
The Digital Futures for Children centre is hiring a Research Officer for our project DigiPulse: Real-time Ecological Momentary Assessment of children’s smartphone engagement and mental health.
The project is funded by the Huo Family Foundation and led by Professor Sonia Livingstone. Over the next three years, across Brazil, UK and Kenya, we are bringing together passive smartphone tracking, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and longitudinal surveys to measure 750 children, aged 10 to 17, to study how smartphone use impacts their mental health and wellbeing.
DigiPulse gathers a multidisciplinary, multi-country team of researchers and child rights advocates across the three project countries to deliver innovative methods and produce novel, comparable data, while employing a child rights approach to engage children in project design and analysis across the project lifecycle. We are now looking to expand our team.
Eligible candidates will:
- Develop and refine the EMA instruments at the heart of the study
- Shape our hypotheses and contribute to the research literature
- Run participatory work directly with children and young people
- Conduct the statistical analysis and help produce findings that partners across three continents will build on
Eligible candidates should have:
- A completed PhD in a relevant field
- Experience developing surveys or questionnaire instruments
- Experience running longitudinal studies
- Hands-on experience with EMA, experience sampling or equivalent
Apply here: https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2504/0/471333/15539/research-officer-digipulse-digital-futures-for-children-centre/Referral
Read more about the project here: https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/our-work/Digipulse
Closing date for applications: 22 July 2026
Expected starting date: 1 September 2026
If you have any questions please reach out to Project lead Dr Kim R. Sylwander k.g.ringmar-sylwander@lse.ac.uk
