Research Assistant, HCE Research to Practice (Praxis) Hub
About the Role
The Research Assistant supports the Supervisor with a range of moderate to complex research activities with a focus on knowledge dissemination and/or translation. Specifically, the RA will have skills in computer programming, setting up websites and linking a front-facing website to the Open Journal System (OJS) and the Mount Royal Open Access Repository. The successful RA will work closely with the Supervisor to launch the HCE Research to Practice (Praxis) Hub. The R2P Hub is a space that helps to disseminate existing and traditional research productivity into a non-traditional, peer-reviewed space with audiences that go beyond other academics such as practitioners working in a discipline, industry experts, or communities where research and scholarship have direct impact. The RA will help to write some of the R2P Hub governance models and shape some of the practices related to a newly defined pairing of academic experts and community expert peer review.
This is a flexible position whose work schedule is variable and may include an irregular schedule of not less than three (3) hours per shift and up to thirty-five (35) hours per week.
Responsibilities
- Help to develop the OJS functionality based on editorial and administrative responsibilities
- Develop an HCE Youtube account that will house video and audio files that are intended to be work- product that is submitted to the Praxis Hub
- Extract pieces each month from the OJS system and highlight them on the front-facing Praxis Hub website
- The RA will design components with an underpinning data collection that helps the team gather quantitative data to study the effectiveness of the Praxis Hub in reaching our target audiences
- Design the websites for optimal searchability based on keywords and topics from the Praxis Hub submissions
Qualifications
- 3rd or 4th year Computer Science student, or a graduate of the program