Following the auditions held online on 05/07/2023, Cn2r is pleased to announce the winners of the three research grants in its 2024 call for projects.
- Funding for the final year of a doctorate
Ms. Nina Moner has been awarded a final-year doctoral grant of €44,000, enabling her to complete her doctoral thesis in clinical psychology on "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for trauma-related disorders in children aged 3 to 6".
More specifically, her thesis is organized around two axes: (1) a first theoretical axis dedicated to the writing of two systematic reviews dealing respectively with assessment methods for PTSD in very young children and therapeutic treatment methods for PTSD in this same population; (2) a second, complementary axis comprising the validation in French of a hetero-reported scale for PTSD in children, the "Young Child Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist" (YCPC, Scheeringa, 2010), as well as a double-blind randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of EMDR therapy in 3- to 6-year-olds.
This final year will be devoted to finalizing the publication of the second literature review and concentrating on completing the clinical trial in parallel with scale validation. This work is being carried out within the Cognition Behaviour Technology laboratory(CoBTeK, EA 7276) at the Université Côté d'Azur, under the supervision of Ms Andréa Soubelet (MCU) and Professor Florence Askenazy.
- Untargeted post-doctoral funding (2 years)
Julia Devanne has been awarded a 121,000€ untargeted post-doctorate grant for her psychology and neuropsychology project entitled "Reconnecting with self and other through adapted physical activity in women suffering from chronic pelvic pain".
This project aims to improve our understanding of the links between somatization and psychotrauma through an integrative approach combining psychological and physiological measures of chronic pain and the repercussions of post-traumatic stress disorder. It also includes an interventional component aimed at assessing how personalized physical activity can promote body awareness and emotional regulation - and thus reconnection to self and others - in these patients, who are often victims of sexual violence. Finally, a specific feature of the project is also to integrate elements relating to attachment style, which can be a resilience factor or a risk factor in the regulation of pain and the experience of adverse events.
This postdoctoral project will be carried out within the "Adversity of life and pain" team of the Cognitive and Adaptive Neuroscience Laboratory(LNCA, UMR CNRS 7364) at the University of Straboursg, under the supervision of Ms Iris Trinkler (MCU) and Professor Pierrick Poisbeau.
- Post-doctorate funding for sectarian aberrations (2 years)
The very first post-doctoral research grant financed by MIVILUDES and organized in partnership with Cn2r has been awarded to Mr. Victor Laurent for his project entitled "Sortir de l'emprise: vécu psychologique des anciens adeptes" ("Breaking free from the hold: the psychological experience of former followers").
This 121,000€ grant will enable the candidate to pursue a dual objective: (1) to carry out a literature review on the psychological difficulties experienced by people who have emerged from sectarian influence; (2) to conduct a mixed study involving qualitative interviews and quantitative measurements of the mental health of former followers, with the aim of creating a new assessment tool targeting the variables most relevant to this population. In addition to the potential presence of psychotraumatic symptoms, the aim is to consider the long-term functional impacts on different spheres of individual functioning and autonomy.
This project will be supervised by Thierry Kosinksi, lecturer at the Laboratoire de Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition(PSITEC, ULR 4972) at the University of Lille, and Sylvain Delouvée, lecturer at the Laboratoire de Psychologie : Cognition, Comportement, Communication (LP3C) at the University of Rennes 2.
All these projects will start by the end of December 2024 at the latest, and will receive methodological support from the Cn2r team, as well as from members of MIVILUDES in the case of the third grant.
We would like to thank all the applicants for their involvement and the quality of the projects submitted as part of this 2024 call for projects. And find all the information about the next edition starting in January 2025 by clicking HERE.