Research Fellow in Social Media and Adolescent Mental Health

The Manchester Institute of Education is seeking an outstanding Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Methods Research Fellow to join our thriving and dynamic research community. You will work as the Project Manager of the UKRI-funded Social Media Measure project alongside Dr. Margarita Panayiotou and other colleagues. The Social Media Measure project is an open-science groundbreaking effort aiming to improve our understanding and measurement of adolescent social media use, and consequently, improve our understanding of how social media influences adolescent mental health and wellbeing. Using a co-production model, we will develop, with young people, a measure and smartphone app to assess adolescent experience of social media use. The Research Fellow/Project Manager will be responsible for the overall management of the project and will lead on data collection and analysis and prepare outputs relating to these analyses among other duties (see ‘main responsibilities’ below). 

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments will be made on merit.

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Blended working arrangements may be considered.

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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Dr. Margarita Panayiotou
Email: [email protected] ​​​​​​​

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.