Graduate Academic Assistant (GAA)

Job title:

Graduate Tutorial Assistant (GAA)

Firm

College of British Columbia

Job description

Pupil (JFG)

Job Class Pupil Worker

Job Title Graduate Tutorial Assistant (GAA)

Division UBCO | Analysis | Taylor | Faculty of Social Work | School of Well being and Social Growth (Edward Taylor)

Posting Finish Date January 15, 2024

Notice: Functions will likely be accepted till 11:59 PM on the day previous to the Posting Finish Date above.

Job Finish Date Oct 31, 2024

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please ship a replica of your CV and a canopy letter to Dr. Edward Taylor through e-mail at [email protected].

Fairness and variety are important to tutorial excellence. An open and various group fosters the inclusion of voices which have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage functions from members of teams which have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated underneath the B.C. Human Rights Code, together with intercourse, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, racialization, incapacity, political perception, faith, marital or household standing, age, and/or standing as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous particular person. All certified candidates are inspired to use.

• Undergraduate diploma in social work, psychology, or associated social science
• Present enrollment within the MSW program at UBCO
• Expertise conducting literature searches and writing literature critiques
• Sturdy studying, comprehension, and writing expertise (the job requires studying quite a few articles and paperwork and writing formal studies, letters, and emails)
• Capacity to look the net for relevant literature and interviews
• Familiarity with databases and spreadsheets

• Desire is given to people who’ve expertise utilizing qualitative and quantitative evaluation software program (the coed will enter knowledge, assist develop analysis questions, and interpret findings)

• Capacity to work on a collaborative, interdisciplinary workforce
• Prepared to stay with the undertaking till October or November 2024

The particular person employed will take part in investigating how ecological techniques, tradition, habits, cognitive-information processing types, and psychological temperament work together and affect violent people. This can be a sociocultural-ecological research knowledgeable by current literature and obtainable knowledge.

The profitable candidate will work straight with Dr. Edward Taylor and talk with authorities and not-for-profit businesses. The GAA will attend common conferences with the analysis workforce. A part of the assigned work could be accomplished off the UBCO campus. Nevertheless, a lot of the analysis requires on-campus collaboration with workforce members.

The research makes use of current printed articles and paperwork together with computer-posted info to look at the event of violent people. This analysis goals to create a multidimensional description of people who deliberately have interaction in bodily assaults. Harmonizing interacting components slightly than reporting singular ideas reminiscent of dwelling scenario or socioeconomic phenomena offers a extra full illustration of how violent plans are shaped. The research seeks to type a synchronized supply of data that particulars the numerous dimensions of violent people.

Duties embrace the next:

• Conduct advanced library and pc literature searches
• Work with the workforce to find out which literature is utilized by the undertaking
• Conduct research-related duties reminiscent of figuring out and summarizing findings from articles, paperwork, and internet info
• Conduct knowledge assortment, together with knowledge evaluation and knowledge administration
• Establish analysis variables inside choose datasets
• Analyze findings to find out themes and linkage amongst and between variables
• Conduct content material evaluation of chosen literature
• Put together and current analysis findings for evaluation by workforce members
• Assist enhance analysis actions and make revisions as vital in work plans and merchandise
• Write analysis studies
• Take part in common workforce conferences
• Work collaboratively with the workforce chief and different R.A.s
• Take part in writing articles for publication (authorship is predicated on the quantity of authentic writing for the article accomplished by the R.A.)
• Performs different associated duties as required.

Anticipated wage

Location

Canada

Job date

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:31:25 GMT

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