Postdoctoral Scholar in Black Child - Calgary, Canada - The University of Calgary

The University of Calgary

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Calgary, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Description

Description

Area:
Black Child & Youth Wellbeing

Duration: 1 year with high possibility of extension

Start Date:
July 1, 2024

Salary:
$60,000 CAD per annum plus University of Calgary Plan C Health Benefits

This position reports to the Principal Investigator, Dr. Bukola Salami.

The individual will have a central role in the completion of the SSHRC Partnership Grant funded project:
Transforming Lives of Black Youth.

The project seeks to create a national network and a centre to build capacity and mobilize knowledge on Black children and youth in Canada.

Specific objectives are as follows:

To cocreate knowledge, solutions, and interventions to address their overrepresentation in the criminal justice and child welfare systems, educational outcomes, and settlement issuesvia participatory action research (PAR)
To create an interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and bilingual network, centre, and knowledge hub to mobilize evidence to improve their wellbeingby engaging researchers, trainees, policymakers, Black communities, and service providers across Canada
To train students and postdoctoral researchers, including Black youthswhile facilitating their transition to academic and nonacademic workplace settings

Their role will include data collection, data analysis, knowledge mobilization, undergraduate and graduate student training, and knowledge hub development.

The first year of the project will be largely completing systematic reviews and quantitative data collection and analysis. The second to fifth year will be largely qualitative data collection and analysis.

This position is located in Calgary, Alberta. The applicant must also be able to travel across sites.

Application to postdoctoral scholarships, such as SSHRC and Banting award will be expected.

Duties will include the following

Assisting Principal Investigator in the design and development of research project
Writing papers for publication
Developing presentations for events, conferences and other knowledge mobilization products
Complete quantitative and qualitative data collection
Contribute to and assist in submitting research grants proposals
Manage ethics submissions, modifications and renewals
Mentor and train research assistants
Develop data collection instruments including survey and interview instruments
Conducts literature reviews, literature search, article selection, data extraction and data analysis for systematic and scoping reviews
Collect interview and focus group data
Recruit research participants
Conduct complex analysis including with NVivo data analysis software
Manage project documentation including protocol development, project planning, evaluation, and reporting
Assists with research data management
Develop and maintain a knowledge hub
Contribute to the development of a center related to Black people
Liaise with researchers, community members, service providers and policy makers across multiple sites
Coordinate and participate in community and stakeholder engagement session
May also coordinate and engage in research activities that broadly improves the lives of Black people in Canada

Qualifications:

PhD degree in social sciences, education or a relevant discipline
PhD must have been awarded within the last five years
Track record of publication in areas related to critical race theory and/or Black people's wellbeing. This may include completing graduate research or working as research assistant/associate on one or more of these topics
Experience working on research projects with Black communities in Canada
Ability to perform detailed design, documentation, and implementation of moderately complex quantitative and qualitative analysis
Indepth theoretical knowledge of intersectionality theory and critical race theory
Indepth knowledge of mixed methods including survey design, interviews and quantitative research
Ability to mentor undergraduate and graduate student
Intermediate software and database experience required with proficiency in Microsoft Office
Experience with NVivo and STATA software is desirable
Experience with qualitative and quantitative research activities: developing survey instrument, developing interview guides; conducting interviews, focus groups, observations; transcription, coding and data analysis
Ability to perform detailed design, documentation, and implementation of moderately complex research project
Track record of building positive relationship with Black and racialized communities is required
Outstanding writing and communication skills
High level of effective time management, personal initiative, and teamwork
Demonstrated leadership, communication, organization, problem solving, and interpersonal skills
Able to recognize and resolve routine problems in the research process
Intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Internet skills

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