Bournemouth University offers fully funded PhD Studentship in Development and validation of a novel smartphone application for the assessment of acute and chronic stress, allowing the investigation of eating behaviours in association with stress during everyday life.
About the project:
- This project aims to develop and validate a novel smartphone application for the assessment of both acute and chronic stress during everyday life.
- The project will utilise this application to investigate associations between stress and eating behaviour.
- The work will be undertaken in a series of studies, based on: reviewing existing measures of stress; development of a smartphone application; testing and validating the application in real world stress-based situations; the investigation of eating behaviours in relation to acute and chronic stress.
Duration: 3 years
Studentship value: fully-funded; stipend £14,000 each year (supports living costs).
Starting date: January 2018
Requirements:
- Applicant must hold an Honours degree at 2:1 or higher and/or a relevant Master’s degree.
- Applicants not from native English countries, then he/she need IELTS 6.5 (Academic) or above.
- Applicant must hold degrees in an appropriate discipline: Psychology, Nutrition, Public Health, Cognitive Science, Human Computer Interaction or Computing.
- Applicants having computing experience would be advantageous; prior knowledge of smartphone application development is not required
How to apply:
- Applicant must complete the online application form
- Interviews will be held in early/mid November, 2017
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| Organization | Bournemouth University |
| Fellowship Level | Doctoral |
| Country | UK |
| Subject areas | Psychology, Nutrition, Public Health, Cognitive Science, Human Computer Interaction, Computing |
| Fellowship amount | Fully-funded |
| Eligibility | Open to all nationalities |
| Deadline | 18th October, 2017 |
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