Research Assistant 3; CHES

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Research Assistant will provide support to the Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigators by coordinating materials development; recruiting participants, collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data; and drafting manuscripts.

The research aims to better understand the lived experience of loneliness of isolation of students in medicine, nursing, occupational therapy and physical therapy health professions educational programs.

The Research Assistant will report to the Principal Investigator and other Co-Investigators, and may receive administrative support from the CHES Administrative Manager and other administrative personnel.

The Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) was formed in April 2008 to enhance health education scholarship across the Faculty of Medicine through collaboration, team-building, mentorship of new faculty, successful funding applications, and other activities. CHES serves as a resource to help support best practices related to the delivery and assessment of the Faculty's educational programs. Its researchers include faculty, post-graduate fellows, and clinical education fellows engaged in various research projects.

- Assist with qualitative research activities, including instrument and study material revision; facilitating artistic data collection in the form of body mapping, conducting interviews; coordination of data collection, data transcription, and team meetings; and qualitative data analysis using software.

- With guidance, perform literature reviews and prepare literature summaries by conducting online searches of journal databases.
- Foster cooperative relationships with the research team and other stakeholders to facilitate the flow of information and ideas, and ensure timely completion of the project.
- Assist with the preparation and dissemination of results, including assisting in the drafting of research reports, power point presentations, and manuscripts for publication.
- Maintain and secure data and files in strict adherence to ethics protocols and to CHES and UBC policies.
- Provide general administrative and logistical support to the investigators as directed by the PI.

- Reports directly to the Principal Investigator (PI).
- Interacts/works closely with other Project Investigators and collaborators at UBC and at Harvard University as needed.
- Interacts with CHES Administrative Manager and other CHES staff as needed.

Failure to adhere strictly to protocols approved by Ethics Boards, and to CHES and UBC policies regarding security of data has the potential to cause harm to study participants, to negatively impact the reputation of the investigators, CHES, and UBC, and to threaten ethics approval, access to funding sources, and access to study participants.

Poor decisions could delay timely completion of projects, cause financial loss and be damaging to the reputation of the PI, the Director, the Centre, the Faculty of Medicine and the University of British Columbia. In addition, errors could cause misinterpretation of results in information disseminated to decision-makers, the public and academic audiences. The consequences could lead to inappropriate policy and decision-making related to health professions education.

- The Research Assistant will…