Research Assistant Positions
The metaBUS team is pleased to announce five Research Assistant positions for summer 2018. Research Assistants will be individuals who are eligible to work as independent contractors in the United States or Canada. Research Assistants will contribute to a data-intensive research curation effort encompassing several decades of the human resource management, organizational behavior, and applied psychology literature. Compensation: $20 USD per hour; payment schedule depends on location and funding source. Research Assistants will supply their own computing equipment (desktop PC with at least two independent displays) and reliable internet connection. Work may be completed anywhere (i.e., no physical presence is required). Research Assistants will be expected to contribute a mean of at least 14.5 hours per week including a weekly web meeting with the metaBUS coding team supervisor.
Eligibility
We seek those with recent training in the areas of I-O psychology, applied psychology, human resource management, or organizational behavior. The ideal candidate is a current graduate student with research experience and high familiarity of the universe of constructs/variables studied in applied psychology and related areas.
Application Process
Send a cover letter, CV, and contact information for two references to: positions@metaBUS.org. In the subject line of your email please enter: metaBUS application: LastName. Direct questions about the position to positions@metaBUS.org.
Schedule (approximate)
April 19-21 Feel free to find Frank Bosco, Krista Uggerslev, or Jamie Field at SIOP for an informal chat
April 21 Application deadline
April 23-27 30-minute informational web meetings
April 30 Decisions made; communicated
May 7 Contract start date
May 7-9 [Tentative dates] Paid training (via web meeting; 9:30am-4:30pm ET)
August 29 Contract end date
About metaBUS
metaBUS is one of 14 projects to win the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2013 Digging into Data Challenge, an international consortium of 10 research funders seeking to explore how computationally intensive research methods can be used to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world. metaBUS is currently funded by the SHRM Foundation (U.S.) and NSERCC (Canada), and previously funded by the National Science Foundation (U.S.), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), and the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business (Canada). Information about the project may be seen at metaBUS.org.
metaBUS relies on a process of semi-automated information extraction with added manual augmentation (i.e., coding). The database has recently surpassed 1,000,000 curated effect sizes (correlations) making it, to our knowledge, the largest collection of its kind across the social sciences. Information about the project and database schema are available in Bosco et al. (2017).
The metaBUS project is managed and directed by Frank Bosco (fabosco@vcu.edu) and Krista Uggerslev (kristau@nait.ca).
Frank A. Bosco, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Business
Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
Virginia Commonwealth University
Snead Hall
301 West Main Street, Room B4151
Richmond, Virginia 23284
804 828-3197 • Fax: 804 828-1602
business.vcu.edu
metaBUS.org