We are excited to announce that 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗝𝗥𝗣 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺! Get in touch with the current team (jrp@pscholars.org) to learn more about the roles. ➡️ Apply here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Deadline: 20th September 2026 at 23:59 CEST

Today is the day! 🎉 The 𝐉𝐑𝐏 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 is officially here! After 13 months of hard work, our 2025/26 Junior Researcher Programme cohort is coming together at Corpus Christi College to share how far their projects have come. We can’t wait to welcome everyone and get the conference started! 💙

Avielle Hamilton is the first Jamaican student to participate in jGlobal, the JRP’s research stay at the University of Cambridge. She is now leading data collection for Jamaica. The project examines how people across 23 countries view the current issues that are impacting their societies today.

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥! Supervisor Dr Miren Chenevert and Junior Researchers Guillermo Valenzuela-Catarí, Milena Guimarães da Silva Guimarães, Jana Mészarosová, Hannah Obertautsch, Parthena Papadopoulou, Gaia Terragni, and Valeria Tutinelli from the 2024–2025 cohort 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆.🎉

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀? Our team is collecting responses across 23 countries. The survey takes 12 minutes. You can take part if you are 18 or older and live in one of the highlighted countries on the map. jrp.pscholars.org/jglobal2026s...

Please join me in welcoming the new cohort for the Junior Researcher Programme 2026-27! 👏 We are very proud!

Executive Director Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, our Director of Operations Hannes Jarke, and our Director of Programmes Federica Stablum led this year's Induction Ceremony. 🎓

Our junior researchers and supervisors showcased their research during the jSchool Poster Session. Insights, inspiration, and innovation were shared. We are incredibly proud of our cohort's work!

Six new research projects are getting off the ground this week at Certosa di Pontignano, Siena! 🌿 Our early-career researchers and students are working together, and it's exciting to watch the next generation of behavioural scientists come together and build their open-science core skills.

Our director of operations Hannes Jarke set the scene of 𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑔𝑒 with an insightful presentation on social media bans! 📱 Find out more here: eurohealthnet.eu/publication/...

Day one is here. Thirty-two students from across the world are arriving at the Certosa di Pontignano, and jSchool 2026 is officially underway. To our new cohort: welcome! We are so glad you are here!

To everyone who applied to jSchool 2026: check your inbox, and don’t forget to look in your spam folder just in case. 📩 If you haven’t received an email from us, please reach out and let us know. Whatever the outcome, we are genuinely grateful for every application we received.

The geographic diversity of this year's jSchool 2026 applicant pool was remarkable. 🌍 Cross-cultural research is what the JRP is built for, and a pool this wide is where that work begins.

The volume and quality of applications this year have been remarkable. Reviewing them is the best part of this process. The JRP team is now carefully reviewing all submissions. Stay tuned for updates.

Applications are now closed. 🎉 Thank you to everyone who applied to jSchool 2026. We will be in touch soon. Stay tuned.

This is the last day to apply to jSchool 2026. The deadline is tonight at 23:59 CEST (Rome time). Please check what that means in your timezone! Submit your application: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Final days to apply to jSchool 2026. ⏳ If you have been sitting on your application, this is the push.

Supervisor Sanne Verra and Junior Researchers Patricia Stehl, Nina Vyvcharuk, Naomi Daniel, Neža Grilc, and Armelle Müller from the 2021-22 jSchool just published in Public Health Nutrition. 🎉 Congratulations to the whole team!

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗷𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

Which emotional responses to the climate crisis motivate climate action? A jSchool 2022 team spent 13 months developing this project, and published their manuscript in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. You can explore more of the JRP outputs at jrp.pscholars.org/research

𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮. 100% 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙. jSchool puts you in a space full of people who are talented, hardworking, and genuinely passionate about research.

Introducing our final team! Marvin Fendt and his team will study psychological inoculation interventions against misinformation. They will test if feedback-enhanced exercises can strengthen the interventions' effects. They wish to gain insights on how to foster resilience against misinformation!

𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 - 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤. That's what jSchool feels like. One week in Siena. Nonstop conversation. People who actually want to talk about research non-stop.

Our next team is led by Dr Lana Bojanić! Her team will research suicide-related internet use, which has been found to be both common and impactful. They aim to study the reasons why people engage with it and the effects it has on suicidal individuals. 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦?

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚. That's exactly what the JRP is for. Junior Researchers from 25-26 Cohort share why they applied to jSchool: to get their first research experience and to collaborate in an international environment!

Dr Jan Mikuni and her team will study an important question: instead of using social media less, what if we focused on using it better? The team will explore if exposure to meaningful and emotionally rich content provides healthier results than just digital detox.

𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙍𝙋 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝, 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨. Listen to Candela Carrera Sáenz, our Junior Researcher. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

Dr Eline Van Geert with her team will explore how everyday aesthetic choices are shaped by perception of colour, shape, and complexity, using designed patterns on products to study how cultural differences affect what we find appealing. Learn more about jSchool 2026: jrp.pscholars.org/jschool2026

𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧'𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡. Listen to Danya Subhas, our Junior Researcher from 2025–26 Cohort. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

Next up is Dr Akanksha Gupta and her team will explore how doomscrolling may influence our ability to focus, by comparing performance on tasks after viewing distressing versus positive content. Learn more about jSchool 2026: jrp.pscholars.org/jschool2026