Research and Evaluation of UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics - Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program
Tina Trujillo, Professor
Education
Applications for Spring 2025 are closed for this project.
At the Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program, advanced professionals are learning how to safely, effectively, and equitably support clients, patients, and study participants in psychedelic-assisted healing and research settings.
In the 2024-25 academic year, the Program will welcome its third cohort of learners to participate in a 200-hour, in-person educational program for chaplains, rabbis, medical doctors, social workers, traditional healers, psychotherapists, nurses, midwives, acupuncturists, and other advanced professionals.
I am seeking URAP students to support my research on the Certificate Program, which is a first-of-its-kind, university-based program that serves as a laboratory school for studying best practices in professional preparation for psychedelics. The study will make theoretical and practical contributions to the fields of psychedelic science and to career development for health care and spiritual care practitioners. The program’s emphasis on preparing professionals in learning settings that are sensitive to considerations of social justice offers the potential to significantly expand psychedelics' therapeutic benefits for marginalized communities in ways that current research, training, and public education do not.
Berkeley School of Education Professor Tina Trujillo serves as the Principal Investigator for a longitudinal, ethnographic case study of the Center’s training program, as well as an internal evaluation of the program. She is seeking URAP applicants who are interested in gaining experience supporting data collection and analysis.
Role: 2-3 URAP students will work together to complete the following projects:
Build and maintain a database of all Program alumni and current learners (presently, n=110). The database will be used to track variables related to learners, their professional trajectories, their program experiences, etc., and to ultimately provide a tool for ongoing data collection and analysis.
Build and maintain a bibliographic database of all conceptual and empirical literature related to psychedelic-assisted healing, psychedelic science, and the history of psychedelics.
[Possibly] Support interviews and focus groups by sending formal invitations and professionally communicating with study participants, processing AI-generated transcripts, and setting up data management systems for a corpus of various forms of qualitative and quantitative data.
Qualifications: Required Qualifications
Experience working successfully on a research team and/or other workplace team
Demonstrated proficiency with database software such as FileMaker Pro, Airtable, Knack, Zoho Creator, MS Access, Google Sheets, etc.
Demonstrated proficiency with bibliographic database software such as Zotero, Endnote, RefWorks, etc.
Excellent data management skills
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate in professional writing
Preferred Qualifications
Experience collecting or analyzing qualitative and basic quantitative data
Experience setting up data management systems
Familiarity with emerging research and public discourse on psychedelics
Preference for virtual work and building databases
Students from under-represented backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.
Hours: 9-11 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: Some work will be at The Alembic, 2820 Seventh St, Berkeley, CA 94710
Related website: https://bcsp.berkeley.edu
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology