RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
About this role
The research assistant for this project will serve several functions. First, they will be responsible for coordinating interviewer schedules and coordinating with individual study sites to fill available assessment openings. Second, they will be responsible for ensuring interviewers have access to appropriate participant information and necessary contact information for local emergency services in the event interviewers need to initiate a wellness check. Third, they will be responsible for coordinating collection, scanning, and mailing of paper interviewer measures (e.g., diagnostic interviews). Finally, they will be responsible for assisting study staff with regulatory oversight tasks for both local (Boston University) and national (centralized IRB) IRBs. This position does require previous experience working in research, ideally involving trauma-specific work (e.g., PTSD research). Although this role will not involve training or overseeing other personnel, the research assistant will have a fair amount of autonomy once adequate training and supervision has been provided. The research assistant will have access to confidential participant information in order to coordinate between sites and interviewers. This position requires a bachelors degree in psychology or a related area and some relevant research experience.
Company at a glance
For seventy years, Boston University College of General Studies has been a leader in general education—a small liberal arts college providing a world-class general education in the heart of a large research university. The educational practices CGS pioneered and refined—interdisciplinary learning, the Capstone project, the use of e-Portfolios for rigorous assessment, and an emphasis on general education—have since been adopted as best practices in the field of higher education.
Today, CGS continues its legacy of interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Its two-year program fulfills most of the University’s BU Hub general education requirements, inspiring students to make connections among disciplines and to connect their knowledge to real-world problems. It continues to offer a rigorous and comprehensive liberal arts foundation while guiding students on a unique pathway through BU, teaching them how to apply broad learning, how to think critically and creatively, and how to communicate effectively. With its unique first-year experience—a spring semester start date followed by a summer semester in London or New England—CGS offers the only program at Boston University where study abroad is integrated into the first year of college.
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