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, 10 December to Thursday, 17 December: Nominations.
Thursday, 17 December to Sunday, 20 December: Dedicated Q&A period.
Sunday, 20 December to Sunday, 27 December: Voting.

[Ldlelee]

Can the former research contact explain what their average duties looked like?

[OptimisticPessimist]

*tagging @henshin 

[michaeld]

and @Jarle, @snowwarp, @Steph Ace, @Lord Happy Toast, @Notte stellata ... and possibly others I forgot (sorry!)

[A User]

On 12/10/2020 at 3:43 PM, Kelly said:

"I nominate myself"

yes

 

[A User]

On 12/10/2020 at 3:43 PM, Kelly said:

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.

uh... 

actually, i realized that i didnt even go to highschool yet (not even close to a bachelor's degree)

[Jarle]

11 hours ago, Leedle-Lee said:

Can the former research contact explain what their average duties looked like?

I'm a former research contact, does that count?

 

In plain language, the person holding this position is responsible for vetting research requests from various parties (mostly academic), making sure that they're suitable for sharing with our community and asking the Research Approval Board to approve it. 

It's not a time-heavy commitment in terms of total hours per week, but it's best filled by someone who can consistently correspond with all parties. Knowing the rules for researchers and students will be immensely helpful, as will a working knowledge of the academic process such as gaining ethics approval, providing informed consent and confidentiality.  It's an interesting position to be in because you get to see first hand some the research around the world that's related to asexuality, and I think it plays a huge role in keeping our AVEN community safe, but also making sure that we're well represented/regarding by the academic community. I'm sure @henshin can give a more up-to-date snapshot too!

[henshin]

21 hours ago, Leedle-Lee said:

Can the former research contact explain what their average duties looked like?

Hiya, sorry that's me! 

 

So regular duties include checking the email account for new requests and responding to them, sharing new research requests with the rest of the Project Team for discussion, and sharing research in the Research Requests & Studies forum when approved. 

 

As @Jarle said being familiar with the guidelines is important and a basic understanding of ethics and research with human participants. 

[Kelly]

*closes*

 

We will try this again soon.