Two PhD Positions: Testing a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Distressed Romantic Couples

You will collaborate closely with the project team at Radboud University and the Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc), and you will take a leading role in the realisation of several objectives. You will develop the intervention in co-creation with the participating couples and mindfulness and relationship experts. In close collaboration with the other PhD candidate on this project, you will set up a randomised controlled trial that will test the mindfulness-based intervention against an active control group on various relationship outcomes, while exploring various mechanisms. The project should result in general guidelines for mindfulness-based couple interventions. You will write scientific papers, resulting in the completion of a PhD thesis at the end of your employment contract.

As part of the BSI Graduate School PhD programme, you will complete several courses related to the basic professional skills of scientific researchers such as scientific integrity and data management. We will also encourage you to attend and present your work at relevant workshops and conferences. You will be given opportunities to develop your teaching skills and/or to make a start with or work on your teaching portfolio for the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ).