Graduate Research Assistant Job Posting

Beyond the Normative Knot:

Life and Praxis at the Gender-Sexuality-Autism Nexus

Salary: $33-$35 an hour depending on experience

Part-time: 7 hours a week

Contract: 20 months

Application Deadline: August 14, 2023

Start Date: September 1, 2023

 

Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice, University of Guelph

Study Team: Dr. Elizabeth Straus, Dr. Carla Rice, Dr. Patty Douglas

We are seeking a part-time Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) to join an interdisciplinary study team conducting a qualitative and arts-based SSHRC-funded study about autistic people’s experiences related to gender, sexuality and autism. The GRA will be an important intellectual and administrative contributor to the study and will gain experience in a diverse skill set in social justice-oriented research, including design, recruitment, interviewing, analysis, knowledge mobilization with professionals and communities, and academic publishing and presentations. The study will also provide the GRA with experience with a unique arts-based storytelling and knowledge mobilization methodology and incorporating digital literacies and technologies in diverse environments.

The position will involve:

  • Participating in monthly research team meetings over Zoom

  • Supporting recruitment and creating a master list of study participants

  • Conducting screening to ensure a diverse participant pool

  • Conducting up to 10 in-depth narrative interviews in-person and/or online

  • Aiding in coding up to 50% of interviews and contributing to data analysis

  • Supporting planning for and supporting participants during the online multimedia storytelling workshop

  • Contributing to co-authoring publications and co-presenting at conferences (as desired)

  • Planning and participating in knowledge mobilization workshops with professionals

  • Reading related to study context, theories, and methodologies

Qualifications:

  • Familiarity and connection with autistic communities and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Lived experience as an autistic, neurodivergent, and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ person an asset.

  • Knowledge of critical and social justice-oriented research and interdisciplinary social sciences, critical disability/autism theories and concepts.

  • Understanding of the ethics associated with research with individuals who are non-normatively embodied.

  • Experience and comfort working on Zoom and/or in online spaces.

  • Storytelling, arts-informed and/or decolonizing research experience and/or interest would be an asset.

  • Experience with in-depth narrative interviews preferred; MAXQDA or other qualitative research software experience would be an asset.

  • Be enrolled as a graduate student; PhD student preferred.

We encourage applications from autistic, neurodivergent, disabled, and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ students, as well as students from traditionally underemployed groups.

To Apply:

Submit a cover letter and CV in pdf form to estraus@uoguelph.ca  

Lilith Lee