Mentorship and Culture
Faculty in the RI Resilience Lab have completed the National Research Mentoring Network’s Mentorship Training Program, a NIH-endorsed training program developed to maximize effectiveness of research mentorship across disciplines. We have formally and informally mentored junior colleagues and trainees across multiple disciplines. Past Resilience Lab members have gone on to pursue successful careers in PhD and MD training, internships / residencies, postdoctoral fellowships, and productive faculty careers in medical schools and top tier (R1) institutions. We are committed to research aimed at important, timely, translational research questions that will make a difference in the real world of adolescents and young adults. We value a culture of kindness and mutual support as well as dedication to scientific excellence. Even when implementing research that does not involve intervention, we take great care to center participant experiences and to be sensitive to the families we are honored to serve.
Clinical Research Assistant Positions
We are currently not recruiting RAs to work in the lab. Check back later for updates!
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Resilience Lab Faculty provide mentorship across numerous Brown Postdoctoral Fellowships including:
The T32 Research Training Program in Child Mental Health
The T32 Research Training in Childhood Traumatic Stress Trauma and Resilience
The T32 Research Training in Suicide
We are also excited to announce a new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity on “Social Media Use, Sleep, and Suicidality in Adolescents.”
The position involves opportunities to learn multiple integrated and innovative methodological approaches, study implementation, mentored leadership/mentorship experiences, and a team science approach. The postdoctoral fellow will be involved in the early stages of implementation of a five-year NIMH-funded research project that examines real-world adolescent sleep, suicidality, and the use of online social messaging (OSM). Consistent with the “Perfect Storm Model” of adolescent sleep, we believe late-night OSM use contributes to impairments in emotional capacity for managing daily stress, resulting in subsequent decreases in positive affect, increases in dysregulation, and increases in suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB). In turn, daytime dysregulation reciprocally impacts nighttime occurrence and features of OSM. This integrated approach is consistent with NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria in that we adopt a translational, cross-disciplinary, multi-method approach that utilizes multiple units of analysis and incorporates developmental considerations. The present innovative research will inform adolescent suicide literature and permit rapid translation to interventions. Trainees involved in the research will have opportunities for hands-on learning about implementing multimethod research (including ecological momentary assessment, wearable technologies, online social media characterization, clinical interviewing, etc.) in high-risk adolescent samples.
Undergraduate Clinical Research Interns
We recruit undergraduate to transcribe/code audio files collected by the EAR from project Ground Truth and entering data using REDCap OR coding social media data from project ED EAR/Ground Truth using excel depending on interests/skillsets. Volunteers are asked to be able to commit 8 hours/week for at least 2 semesters and attend a weekly 30-minute intern meeting. This is a completely remote position, but interns can come to Butler Hospital in Providence to complete their hours if a need arises. As a result, our volunteers can come from any school in the New England area. Please note, we are unable to accept applications from rising Freshmen or second-semester Seniors. In many departments, there may be opportunities for course/independent research credit, but it will be up to each individual to seek out the requirements set forth by their school.
We begin the recruitment/application process at the end of each semester and anticipate that a new cohort will start at the beginning of the new semester. This process usually starts early May for the summer semester, mid-July for the fall semester, and early-December for the spring semester. We typically email a variety of professors from schools in the NE area who reach out to students on our behalf, but if you have any questions or want more information about the process, please feel free to contact Rachna Iyer at rachna_iyer@brown.edu.