Project Team Member Needed: Dedicated Research Contact Nominations

[Kelly]

We are now taking nominations for a PT member for the office of Dedicated Research Contact.

 

If you are interested, throw cookies, cakes, your hat, turnip, or whatever you have into the ring (but make it obvious that you wish to run; state "I nominate myself" or similar).

 

The Project Team is in charge of visibility projects on AVEN. For more information about what the Project Team does, please see this link:

 

http://avenpt.tumblr.com/projectteam

 

Possible Project Team activities include:

- dealing with AVEN's media and research requests,

- managing resources,

- giving help to others with their visibility projects.

 

All PT positions have a duration of 2 years. If anyone steps down in that time, a new election will be held and the replacement will have a new term of 2 years.

 

The office that we are presently in need of is:

 

Dedicated Research Contact

 

Responsibilities: The primary responsibilities of this position are to coordinate with researchers wanting to recruit research participants from AVEN, and to implement AVEN's policies for researchers. Responsibilities include briefing other members of the PT as to the research responsibilities of the PT; acting as the default mediator between the PT and any researcher who wishes to recruit from AVEN; starting votes on research requests, or ensuring that another PT member does this; be responsible for overseeing updates to the research policy, as and when appropriate.

 

Requirements: The DRC must have a familiarity with the existing research literature on the subject of asexuality and a sound grasp of the field of online research ethics. The DRC must be able to coordinate with researchers of a wide variety of views on various issues. Ideally, the DRC should have or be in the last year of obtaining a Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field (i.e., a field that involves research with human subjects), but exceptions may be made for candidates with otherwise outstanding qualifications.

 

If you think that you would be an awesome AVEN Project Team Member, please throw you hat, turnip, whatever, in here.

 

Eligibility rules include: a person must have been a member for at least 6 months, and have at least 100 posts that are not in the Just For Fun or Welcome Area forums. You also cannot run with an active, current, warning. The eligibility criteria for PT are precisely the same as that for an Admod. A bio is required by voting time. Election rules are here:

 

http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/90514-rules-and-procedure-for-elections/ 

  

You can run for only one office at a time.

 

Voting will be by a vote of confidence.

 

This is the timeline for this election:

Thursday, 5 December to Thursday, 12 December: Nominations.
Thursday, 12 December to Sunday, 15 December: Dedicated Q&A period.
Sunday, 15 December to Sunday, 22 December: Voting.

[henshin]

What the hell, I'll nominate myself. I have been a member here for what feels like half my life but never volunteered to help with it so I would like to give something back without being a mod.

 

I have a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in neuroscience so have a solid understanding of research ethics and academic theory/research. I also write and analyse surveys as part of my job and as part of my other job in youth work I field messages from researchers all the time who want to speak to the young people I support. 

 

I think I've got a pretty good bullshit detector, know how to research and check credibility, and know what questions to ask people with a survey they want filled out. 

 

Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. @Kelly do you want me to say anything else?

[Kelly]

9 minutes ago, henshin said:

@Kelly do you want me to say anything else?

You can send me a bio, and answer any questions during the Campaign period.  

[Ldlelee]

*throws hat into the ring*

 

I've been thinking for a while about getting into the backroom again, and this sounds up my alley, so consider me in! 😁

[Ldlelee]

Okay, change of plans. 😅

 

I'm actually going to run for the Media Coordinator position instead, because I didn't know elections were running for it, and even though I would love to do this one as well, that one is a much better fit for me and could also benefit my future career, so...😶

 

@Kelly Please consider this my withdraw! Best of luck to @henshin and anybody else who runs!

[Jarle]

As the current DRC I'd like to encourage anyone who is interested in the position to nominate themselves!

 

The position largely entails speaking with researchers from around the world and making sure their studies aren't biased or unsafe for our community members to participate in. The next step is taking it to the Research Approval Board for discussion, which often raises some suggestions for the researcher to consider.  

 

Working with the rest of the PT has been amazing, they're all wonderful and supportive people and will have your back when you need it. If you meet the criteria above, go for it!

[Kelly]

*closes to start campaigns*