Research assistant position

Donte T. Boyd, faculty member in the College of Social Work, was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health grant to investigate how strength-based approaches can optimize HIV outcomes and promote the health and well-being of young Black men who have sex with men ages 14-24 in Columbus, Detroit, and St. Louis. He is looking for a research assistant at the master’s or PhD level.

The research assistant will be supervised in this work by Boyd and learn valuable skills that can be useful for graduate school or future career opportunities. Students are asked to work 10-20 hours/week and will be paid $24 per hour. Hours are flexibly determined. 

The research assistant will be virtual and will have virtual meetings about the task given. The research assistant will help develop the survey using validated measures, help with launching the survey in Columbus and Saint Louis (virtually), help with recruitment; participate with conducting qualitative interviews, and help manage the data/code/clean; help with writing manuscripts if interested.

Donte T. Boyd, boyd.465@osu.edu