A part-time, temporary Research Aide is needed to assist the Principal Investigator with a research project investigating implications of genetic explanations of addiction in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry. This position is temporary for 4 to 8 months. Responsibilities: -Performs coding of transcripts of qualitative research interviews, including assisting with codebook development as needed. -Assists with analysis and interpretation of qualitative data from research interviews. -Assists with general research administration tasks.
Project Narrative This project will identify and reduce ethical and practical barriers to sharing qualitative research data. It will develop new resources to increase data sharing in an ethical manner, which will improve the quality of research data, facilitate new research in a cost-effective manner, and foster the training of new researchers.
This Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) will prepare the candidate to become an interdisciplinary ELSI researcher conducting high-impact, independently funded research exploring the impact of genetic and other biological explanations for addictions and other psychiatric disorders on attitudes and beliefs about health and identity. The research will examine how genetic attributions for addiction relate to beliefs about individual agency and treatment effectiveness among people with addictive disorders and clinicians who treat them.