Swinburne BabyLab

👨‍👩‍👧 Join the Swinburne BabyLab for a PhD in Child Development!

At the Swinburne Babylab, we study development from infancy through early childhood, involving infants, preschoolers, and their parents.

Applications are now open for the October 2025 PhD Scholarship round (closing 7 October 2025).

Current projects focus on:
• Children’s and parents’ interactions with technology (touchscreens, VR, robots, and AI)
• An ARC-funded project on children’s gamble-play culture: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP250103014

We welcome PhD applicants interested in these areas as well as those with broader interests in cognitive development, social development, and developmental cognitive neuroscience.

Methods & Approaches
Depending on the project, PhD students may use:
• Behavioural tasks
• Monitor-based eye-tracking
• Head-mounted eye-tracking
• High-density EEG
• Potentially MEG and fMRI

Funding & Support
• Swinburne University of Technology offers full scholarships (tuition + stipend) on a competitive basis. RTP stipend: AUD $34,700 per annum (2025 rate).
• The children’s gamble-play culture project is supported by an ARC grant. The PhD student working on this project would be funded by the grant at AUD $35,886 per annum (2025 rate, indexed).

Deadline: 7 October 2025
Location: Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

To Apply: Contact Assoc Prof Jordy Kaufman at [email protected] to register your interest and receive more information about the lab, projects, and application process.

Are you the parent of an 18month-old to 7 year-old child, over the age of 18, and interested in participating in NEW ASD screen usage Study? Click the link below and participate in a study regarding parent and child autistic traits and screen usage.

https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eCLeOgNyUCEAWcm

To learn more check out the following article at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9431368/

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To learn more, check out the following article at https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjdp.12312

To learn more, check out the following article at https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00239/full

Curious about your 7, 8 or 9-year-old's streaming habits? 📺🕵️‍♂️ Email us to book a school holiday appointment!

Congratulations to Georgia Clift who was just awarded her Masters by Research with no thesis revisions required!

And belated Congratulations to Mantavya Patel, who completed his masters degree in March and has begun an exciting new PhD project in the Babylab.