CHL5203H Position Description -Emergency Posting
The course provides fundamental public health research skills for both quantitative and qualitative researchers including health professionals to work in both research and applied settings. It focuses on practical issues involved in the design and conduct of surveys in health and social research.
The course format includes lectures delivered by the course instructor and guest lecturers as well as group work and student presentations. Sessions will focus on acquiring the skills and knowledges to build a survey including articulating objective(s) and research question(s) as well as writing a research proposal to investigate the topic of interest on which the survey is based.
*This course will not provide you with basic statistical analysis skills. It is highly recommended that you have completed undergraduate statistics courses.
Instructors: Anita Benoit
Qualifications:
At a minimum the TA must have a Doctorate degree in progress with relevant academic background. Relevant academic background includes having completed a research methods and/or statistics course. Other experience includes writing critiques; having previously engaged or be familiar with survey, database, or other types of quantitative research; as well as familiarity with the composition and format of research protocols.
Duties:
First one page critique
b. Second one page critique
c. Research proposal: rationale for selected survey domain, research question(s) and objective(s) and beginning of survey
d. Research protocol: literature review, rational, research methods, and survey
Relevant Criterion:
Previous experience is the more relevant criterion than the need to acquire experience in respect of this posted position.