Opportunities
RESEARCH ASSITANT – DIALOG
Job Opportunity!
We are looking for someone to join our team to manage the entire participant recruitment process and maintain direct communication with participants during interviews, tests, and exams. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that objectives are met and will report to the project coordinator.
STUDENTS – Quebec Speech Bank (QSB)
Call for students!
The Quebec Speech Bank is a large-scale initiative aimed at collecting speech, cognition, and facial movement data from community samples to advance research in neuroscience, language, and mental health. We are looking for students who can contribute to recruitment efforts, and if you are signed up in a more formal course with allocated hours, you can be trained in data acquisition as well.
Students joining this project will also develop skills in data curation of speech samples, including:
- Hands-on practice transcribing speech samples.
- Proofing and correcting automated transcripts to improve accuracy.
- Learning conventions for annotating speech (pauses, hesitations, fillers, errors).
- Exposure to quality control, documentation, and ethical data handling practices.
Learn more on our website or contact Roozbeh for details.
RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS – BLOOM RESEARCH PROGRAM
Call for participants!
We are currently recruiting participants (youth and/or their family members) for the BLOOM study.
BLOOM is a research program that aims to better understand the onset of mental issues in young people in order to help prevent them and improve access to specialized care.
*Please note that, like most research projects, we will offer financial compensation for your time and travel.
Interested in participating or know someone who is? Visit the BLOOM webpage for more information about the study.
ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES
High-school students with an interest in youth mental health, drop us a line. Undergraduates looking for Research Assistant positions, send a CV and motivation letter with your near-term academic plans and a half-page description of how you could contribute to one of our research projects. Graduate applicants (MSc/PhD: Montreal) – new intakes at one of the McGill programs (Psychiatry, IPN, or Psychology), please send a CV and motivation letter with a one-page critique of one of our published papers. Postgraduates (global) with a track record in any of the following areas of research are welcome: developmental psychopathology, clinical linguistics, cognition, natural language processing, brain stimulation, brain imaging (especially MRS, MEG or fMRI), or co-designing in youth mental health. Lived experience experts (Canada) – we have several opportunities for ad-hoc and long-term roles for people with lived or care-taking experience in mental health.