Postdoctoral Position

We are recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow (36-month fixed-term) to join an ambitious, international research programme exploring the developmental roots of belief polarization—and how it might be mitigated. The post is based at the Kids in Context Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and is part of the Developing Belief Network (DBN)—a globally coordinated team science initiative across 19 countries, 14 languages, and 15 faith traditions, committed to understanding children’s belief development in context.

You will contribute to a new longitudinal study that investigates how young children across diverse cultural contexts form, revise, and reason about beliefs in domains such as religion, science, morality, and social justice. We examine how these beliefs become entrenched or remain flexible, and how they relate to intuitive thinking and intergroup attitudes. You will also have access to prior waves of DBN data, enabling you to begin analyses and scholarly outputs immediately.
This is an exciting opportunity for a developmental psychologist with interests in social identity, epistemic trust, essentialism, polarization and/or belief revision. You will lead experimental, survey, and mixed-method data collection and analysis, collaborating closely with Jocelyn Dautel (QUB), Kathleen Corriveau (Boston University) and Rebekah Richert (UC Riverside), and join a vibrant international network committed to impactful, culturally grounded developmental science.

The role is ideally suited to someone seeking academic leadership in understanding the development and diversity of belief formation and social cognition from a global perspective.

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