Department
Research | SARAVYC | School of Nursing | Faculty of Applied Science (Elizabeth Saewyc)
Posting End Date
April 15, 2023
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.
This position is located within a health-care facility, therefore, the successful candidate will be required to provide verification of full vaccination against Covid-19 provided prior to the start date, as required by a provincial health mandate.
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AT THE STIGMA AND RESILIENCE AMONG VULNERABLE YOUTH CENTRE
The School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus, invites applications for a part-time (0.75 FTE) position at the rank of Post-Doctoral Fellow. The position is for one year, with the possibility of extension subject to work performance and grant availability. Salary will be $45,000.00 per year. The anticipated start date is May 1, 2023.
The Stigma and Resilience among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC) is a team of researchers and community partners advancing research to improve the lives of 2SLGBTQ+ youth. The successful candidate will have a background in qualitative research and health intervention design. They will join an award winning applied, multi-disciplinary, mixed-methods research group. Besides the project listed below, the post-doctoral fellow will also be involved in other assessment and intervention research as needed.
The successful applicant, under supervision from our Executive Director will lead the analysis of online focus group discussions and interviews among 2SLGBTQ+ youth and their parents, to identify key topic areas for interventions, and capture cultural diversity in parental responses to 2SLGBTQ+ youth. They will also be involved in the development of health behavior interventions for 2SLGBTQ+ youth, including culturally relevant approaches for East Asian, South Asian and Indigenous young people, as well as interventions for parents.
The goal of the project is to elicit culturally diverse examples of rejecting and accepting parental behaviours from youth and parents, and create interventions to support parents in supporting their 2SLGBTQ+ young people. This is a writing intensive position where the successful applicant, under supervision from our Executive and Managing Directors, will lead the drafting of academic papers and community friendly reports about 2SLGBTQ+ youth health outcomes in British Columbia, and more broadly, in Canada.
Responsibilities will include:
Analysis of the online focus group discussion and interviews among 2SLGBTQ+ youth and their parents.
Draft and lead the submission process for academic papers related to 2SLGBTQ+ youth health
Creating, gathering feedback and producing intervention materials that inspire behavior change among diverse 2SLGBTQ+ youth
Creating, gathering feedback and producing intervention materials that inspire behavior change among parents of 2SLGBTQ+ youth
Supervising research coordinators, and assistants conducting participant recruitment, assisting with focus groups, and assisting in intervention development and writing
Developing research ethics applications, reports, academic papers, press releases, presentations and website content
Updating Executive and Managing Directors as well as collaborators at staff meetings, in email correspondence, and in phone conferences
Assisting in supervising research assistants working on other qualitative projects at SARAVYC
Other activities supporting SARAVYC research projects as required
Job Qualifications:
Completed a Ph.D. within the last 5 years (or shortly expect to complete) in a relevant discipline (e.g. education, public health, nursing, communications/media, sociology, anthropology)
Research record demonstrating qualitative research
Demonstrated understanding and experience working with 2SLGBTQ+ youth and engagement with ethnoculturally diverse populations (East Asian, South Asian, Indigenous)
Strong writing skills, experience with publishing professional journal articles, including first authored papers.
Experience managing others and project management (creating project charters,
schedules, project management plans) considered an asset
Applications, including CV, cover letter outlining specific examples of experience and research interests, and recent published peer reviewed papers (if applicable) must be submitted online at: https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs . Review of applications will begin April 10, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled.
Information on the School of Nursing is available at https://nursing.ubc.ca