Research Assistant Position Announcement
Duties: The Research Assistant will assist Carrie Oser and the research team on the two projects listed below. Specifically, the duties of the Research Assistant will include completing administrative tasks, preparing DAVs, balancing the Imprest account, sending out birthday cards to participants, preparing interview packets, entering survey data, analyzing quantitative/qualitative data, conducting literature reviews, and writing manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals. A strong applicant should possess good organizational, communication, methodological, statistical, and writing skills.
Dates: May 16, 2011 to May 15, 2012 (start date is negotiable)
Pay: RA stipend for the 2011-12 year, tuition
To Apply: Please submit a cover letter, CV, and writing sample to Carrie
Oser cboser0@uky.edu by April 25, 2011.
Project Title #1: African American Female Drug Users: HIV, Health
Disparities, & Criminality
Project #1 Overview: The overall goal of this study is to understand how drug use and criminality are related to health disparities, particularly HIV, and service utilization among African American drug using and non-drug using women across criminal justice status (i.e., prison, jail, probation, and non-offenders in the community). Over the course of this five-year study, 800 African American will be recruited and followed-up for face-to-face interviews at 6-, 12-, and 18-months after the baseline interview. The significance of this longitudinal study includes the potential to provide criminal justice systems-level data for health planning and health policy for prevention, intervention, and treatment of African American female drug users.
Project Title #2: Rural Drug Abuse Treatment: Organizations, Counselors, & Client Outcomes
Project #2 Overview: The overall goal of this project is to apply an ecological theoretical framework to better understand counselor contextual and organizational contributions to rural treatment outcomes in public substance abuse treatment facilities. Focus group data has been collected from rural and urban treatment counselors to inform a survey design. This summer, survey data will be collected from counselors and administrative in publicly funded treatment in Kentucky.
Carrie B. Oser, PhD
University of Kentucky
Department of Sociology
Center on Drug and Alcohol Research
1531 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506
