Playing for Change
Jennifer Skeem, Professor
Youth Equity Disovery Initiative-YEDI
Applications for Spring 2024 are closed for this project.
Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor Jennifer Skeem, a psychologist affiliated with the Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Social Welfare. For more about us and our work, please see: http://risk-resilience.berkeley.edu/
In our Playing for Change project, we have partnered with local youth agencies and schools, and international experts to build a fun and helpful game to prevent aggression and promote prosocial development that can expand the reach of current prevention efforts. We are currently getting ready to pilot test its fun and effectiveness.
Role: We are looking for a student Research Assistant (RA) to join our team. The student RA will work with RRR faculty, staff and students on our Playing for Change project. The study involves working with local youth (9 -12 year old students) testing and evaluating a “serious video game” to prevent aggression and promote prosocial development. This role involves engaging directly with youth in various school settings to assist with playtesting and tournaments, collaborating closely with other team members while interacting with up to 10 youths in competitive environments.
Other duties may include data entry, data coding, and other duties related to the project as required.
Qualifications: Applicants must have a good GPA and relevant interests. They should be interested in involvement in our lab, including professional development activities, that can contribute to successful graduate school applications. The position is based at UC Berkeley and is unit bearing. Weekly Hours: 6-8 minimum.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Dr Sharon Farrell, Executive Director, Staff Researcher
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: Accompanying team members to local schools will be required (schools TBD).
Related website: https://risk-resilience.berkeley.edu/
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