Practicum Opportunity: Dating-violence Research
NEEDED: One MPH student with excellent organizational and interpersonal skills to carry out dating violence-related research
The purpose of this project is to gather data from 90-100% of researchers who have published a peer-reviewed paper on adolescent dating violence in the past 5 years on whether they experienced any ‘adverse events’ (that is Human Subjects language) during the conduct of research.
In other words, we need to know if dating violence studies are dangerous for adolescents to participate in because their confidentiality is broken or because their abusive partner retaliates, etc.
Primary Responsibilities:
The practicum student will help design the survey instrument, put it on Survey Monkey, compile a list of researchers, email and telephone call each researcher to ask them to complete the survey (1-1 contact will be necessary), and analyze data. The PI will then use the data to write a manuscript for peer-reviewed publication and the practicum student may participate in the writing and submission process, and will be an author on the paper.
This is an excellent opportunity for anyone with an interest in:
Research ethics; Dating violence; Primary data collection; Becoming personally acquainted with all the dating violence researchers in the world we are able to get ahold of.
This practicum will take a minimum of 120 total hours, but the work can take place any day of the week, at any hour of the day, and from any location. Ideally this practicum will begin January 2014 but it can start later.
If you are interested, please send a resume and statement of interest to Emily Rothman (erothman@bu.edu). Please comment specifically on whether you have ever used Survey Monkey before and if you have ever analyzed data before. Having no experience is not a deal-breaker, just good to know.
