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