Julia Morinaj is an advanced postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Research in School and Instruction at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Bern, Switzerland, and an EARLI SIG 8 ‘Motivation and Emotion’ JURE coordinator. She is a project leader in an intervention study ‘Well-Being in School in Switzerland’ (WESIR) funded by the SNSF to identify factors influencing the development of student and teacher well-being and to incorporate well-being strategies into classroom practices. Her research interests are well-being in school, school alienation, emotion and motivation, teacher–student relationships, whole-school approach, and mixed-methods and intervention studies.