Interested in Joining Our Team?
If you are a current Emory University student interested in research focused on youth mental health, disparities, community engagement (or all of the above), keep scrolling to learn more about how you may get involved with the ENRICH Program as a research assistant!
Equitable Care for All
ENRICH Program Pillars
Community Engagement
Evidence-Based Practice
ENRICH Program Core Values
Intellectual Curiosity
In the ENRICH Program, we conduct research and facilitate discussions that engender thoughtful engagement. Here, no question is “too simple” when humility is appreciated and learning is the objective.
Transparency
We understand how demanding the personal, professional, and or academic responsibilities one possesses can be, so we prioritize providing clarity around our professional bandwidths to promote accountability and set reasonable expectations and goals.
Collaboration
The ENRICH Program boasts an interdisciplinary team made up of individuals throughout the professional life cycle. We value learning from and alongside one another with the varying levels of expertise that we each bring!
Community Engagement and Feedback
As a community-based participatory research laboratory, the ENRICH Program is devoted to engaging with the community at events across our service area, fostering connections with likeminded individuals and organizations, and soliciting community members’ feedback on our research studies primarily through our youth and community advisory boards.
Professional Identity and Development
In the ENRICH Program, support is provided to you for wherever you would like to go. Therefore, your time in the ENRICH Program calls for you to take initiative to hone and develop your professional interests and skills, and carve out your trajectory!
If our pillars and core values resonate with you, we invite you to learn more about what a research assistant in the ENRICH Program does below!
Research Assistant Duties
Data
Management
and Analysis
You may be asked to clean quantitative and qualitative data, or be invited to analyze data.
Study
Piloting
You may be asked to serve as a practice participant for new research studies as we fine-tune protocols and procedures.
Clinical
Interviewing
Exposure
You may have opportunities to facilitate clinical interviews with study participants.
Survey
Formation
You may be asked to input questionnaire items in our survey software management system at the onset of new research studies.
Community
Engagement
You may be asked to post study flyers in the community, or be invited to attend and represent the ENRICH Program at community engagement events.
Scholarly Work
Preparation
You may be invited to complete or prepare scholarly work (e.g., from completing citations to carrying out a mentored research project).
Want to Learn More About Research, but not Quite Sure Where to Start?
If you think that you may be interested in research, but want to gather more information (collect more data), click the button below to access the ENRICH Program’s free Research Guide (brought to life by an ENRICH Program research assistant alumna!)
Know Before You Apply
Below are some important things to consider to help you to determine whether you would like to apply to join the ENRICH Program as a research assistant.
Should you have any remaining questions after reading this, please feel free to email us.
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Research assistants in the ENRICH Program can anticipate work for up to 15 hours a week. The exact schedule will vary week-to-week based on participant recruitment flow. We will work around your existing schedule.
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Research assistants in the ENRICH Program can carry out their regular duties remotely. However, community engagement opportunities (referenced above) are typically in-person obligations.
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At this time, the research assistant role is on a volunteer-basis. However, should funds become available through future funding mechanisms, we look forward to providing role compensation!
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Yes. Past ENRICH Program research assistants have received course credit for conducting an independent (mentored) research project using ENRICH Program data that resulted in a first-authored conference presentation and manuscript written for peer-reviewed publication.
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Yes.
All applicants must be current students within the Emory University system; all majors and classifications are welcome to apply.
Selected candidates must commit to serving in this role for a minimum of 2 calendar years.
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Competitive applicants heavily resonate with our ENRICH Program pillars and core values, in addition to demonstrating a reliable, self-motivated, enterprising, diligent nature, and positive attitude.
Moreover, competitive applicants possess a strong interest in and or experience with research on youth mental health, disparities, and / or community engagement.