Part-Time Research Support - MESH Lab

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The Research Support position performs a variety of specialized tasks associated with conducting and disseminating results from research, including: running data analyses; literature searches; editing and formatting manuscript text and tables and helping to draft manuscripts; cleaning and entering data; running data analyses; helping with codebooks for research projects; helping produce figures and other materials for presentations; overseeing and monitoring research procedures and recordings to ensure quality control and compliance.

• Provide support for a research project such as gathering, summarizing, interpreting, and disseminating information based on extant literature; determining emerging trends in a field of study, etc.
• Review existing data for errors and/or enter data into spreadsheets, forms, or statistical software programs
• Initiate or contribute to data analysis for use in technical reports, documents, proposals, or oral/written presentations
• Draft research protocols, codebooks, abstracts, and consent forms
• Help write up results for publication; may contribute to proposal drafts to obtain grant funding

MS or higher degree in Biobehavioral Health or related field; expertise in statistical modeling, including latent profile modeling Research expertise related to the following content areas is strongly preferred: mechanisms underlying stress and physical health connections; emotion-related dynamics; child and adult psychopathology; depression

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