Research Assistant

Required Availability

Fall 2023 | Spring 2024

Preferred Majors

Psychology

Keywords

LGBTQIA+ | Developmental Psychology | gender | sexuality | race | peer relationships

Description

Dr. Biefeld’s BODY LAB is looking for undergraduate research assistants (RAs). We study how experiences of harassment and discrimination (at an individual and systematic level) impact the mental and physical health of children and adolescents. We also investigate the ways that body justice, intersecting identities, and community membership foster well-being and healthy development. Importantly, work in the lab utilizes both quantitative and qualitative approaches. You can see more about our work here: https://bodylab.ua.edu/ We study topics such as: (1) perceptions of discrimination across intersecting identities (e.g., gender identity, body-size, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity) (2) peer-to-peer gender-based and sexual harassment (3) objectification and dehumanization (4) weight-bias (5) positive body image (6) eating disorder symptomatology Duties of an RA can include data collection with children (at afterschool programs for example), qualitative interviews with adolescents and parents, coding qualitative interviews, data analysis, recruitment of research participants, and creation of surveys. Dr. Biefeld also provides professional development for Ras which includes creating a research poster for presenting, discussing how to apply to graduate school and/or how to look for and get a job after graduation. If you are still interested (and I hope you are), please complete the steps below. 1. Fill out the application here: https://universityofalabama.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dnAH4DUTNU1Car4 2. Please send me a copy of your resume or CV via email: sdbiefeld@ua.edu

Contact Phone #

N/A

Contact Email

sdbiefeld@ua.edu

Research Website

https://bodylab.ua.edu/