| Job Summary: |
Seeking Research Scientist to join the Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research (EdSHARe) team. EdSHARe currently includes two High School & Beyond (HSB) and The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS72). Both are extraordinary data resources for studying the long term consequences of education for later life health, cognition, and wellbeing. The Scientist will work closely with the MPIs to produce analyses and write, present, and publish papers evaluating the relationships between educational opportunities, experiences, and achievements early in the life course and health outcomes later in life, with a focus on cognitive decline and precursors of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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| Responsibilities: |
Identifies research problems, designs research methodologies, performs and supervises research, and prepares and presents results for presentation to professional organizations or for scholarly publications. May supervise staff.
- 5% Identifies research problems and develops highly complex research methodologies and procedures. Publishes and presents results to help advance research
- 55% Collects and analyzes highly complex research data, conducts experiments and interviews, and documents results according to established policies and procedures
- 15% Conducts literature reviews, prepares reports and materials and, disseminates information to appropriate entities
- 15% Attends and assists with the facilitation of scholarly events and presentations in support of continued professional development and the dissemination of research information
- 10% Identifies, writes, or assists in developing grant opportunities, grant applications, and proposals to secure research funding
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| Qualifications: |
Required Qualifications
* Ph.D. in Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Education, Epidemiology, Neuropsychology or a related field.
* Demonstrated expertise and experience in quantitative research using large population-representative datasets. This includes expertise and experience employing multiple types of modeling strategies (e.g., categorical data analysis, event history analysis, latent variable modeling, random effects models) and conducting analyses that employ strategies for dealing with missing data and complex sampling designs.
* Demonstrated expertise and experience authoring journal article and/or reports
* Experience in data management, documentation, and handling secure/restricted data.
* Expertise using Stata.
Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
* Expertise in research on education and schools, cognition, aging, and/or health disparities.
* At least five years of experience in empirical quantitative research using large population-representative datasets collected as part of longitudinal studies.
* Experience working in an academic or similar research environment.
* Experience working in highly interdisciplinary, cross-site, collaborative research projects.
Required Qualifications
* Ph.D. in Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Education, Epidemiology, Neuropsychology or a related field.
* Demonstrated expertise and experience in quantitative research using large population-representative datasets. This includes expertise and experience employing multiple types of modeling strategies (e.g., categorical data analysis, event history analysis, latent variable modeling, random effects models) and conducting analyses that employ strategies for dealing with missing data and complex sampling designs.
* Demonstrated expertise and experience authoring journal article and/or reports
* Experience in data management, documentation, and handling secure/restricted data.
* Expertise using Stata.
Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
* Expertise in research on education and schools, cognition, aging, and/or health disparities.
* At least five years of experience in empirical quantitative research using large population-representative datasets collected as part of longitudinal studies.
* Experience working in an academic or similar research environment.
* Experience working in highly interdisciplinary, cross-site, collaborative research projects.
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| Work Type: |
Full Time: 100%
This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
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