The E.P. Bradley Hospital Sleep and Chronobiology Research Laboratory is looking for full time Research Assistants. We are a leading research group and home to the NIH-funded COBRE Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Lifespan's Bradley Hospital and the lab are affiliated with Alpert Medical School Brown University's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.
OPEN POSITIONS
The Sleep Lab is looking for full-time research assistant (RAs) to assist the efforts of the Sleep and Circadian Methods Research Core (SCMRC) of the COBRE center. The SCMRC RA is responsible for leveraging numerous methodologies to assist center funded investigators and projects. Current and recent scientific themes include the measurement of sleep and circadian rhythms in pediatric anxiety, adolescents who experience psychosis, teens involved in the justice system, autism, epigenetics, and more. These projects may involve in-person assessments, laboratory and field monitoring, wearable technologies to track sleep, biometrics, and brain activity, saliva sampling, and cognitive testing. Commitment for two years is preferred.
RESEARCH DUTIES
The SCMRC RA aids in methods documentation and dissemination, training faculty, assisting in data collection, data organization, processing, and summarization. They also aid in preparing regulatory documents, drafting reports, and can contribute to presentations, publications, and the center's broader academic activities (e.g., journal clubs). This is a dynamic position allowing the incumbent to interface with both the breadth of sleep and circadian rhythms basic science methodology and our center's wide reach in the clinical domains of child and adolescent mental health.
Ideal candidates are excited by human-subjects research and often pursue careers in graduate school, medical school, or a career in the behavioral sciences.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent "people" skills and enjoy working with the community (adults and children).
- Access to a car
- Undergrad degree in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, or a related field.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Effective organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Able to tackle complex tasks independently.
- Comfortable working in a team setting.
- Flexible schedule (some evenings or weekends on occasion) depending on the studies' activities.
- Commitment to a lab ethos of honesty and accuracy in the scientific process.
- Strong computer skills.
- Prior experience with statistics and/or programming (e.g., R, STATA, SPSS, MATLAB, UNIX, Python) is a plus.
- A strong academic record and research experience are desirable.
HOW TO APPLY
Please send a cover letter and resume to Cristal Medeiros (CMedeiros13@lifespan.org)
Lifespan is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment opportunities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetics, military service or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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