[Air-L] Reminder - Spring Virtual Research Fellows

[Jason Radford]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to remind you that the deadline to apply for the Virtual
Research Fellows program with Volunteer Science
<https://volunteerscience.com/> is *next Friday December 29th.* The
semester-long fellowship is for researchers interested in creating online
studies using the platform. During the fellowship, researchers will receive
free access to Volunteer Science’s researcher portal, free training in
building online web applications with Volunteer Science, and weekly coding
sessions and hands on support from Volunteer Science staff. The expectation
is that fellows will use this time to create, deploy, and analyze data from
their application by the end of the fellowship.

Please see the attached Call for Applications for details on eligibility,
application instructions, and the calendar of events for the Spring.

Please email me with any questions. Anyone interested in conducting
research on Volunteer Science is invited to sign up for a research team
<https://www.volunteerscience.com/research/> where you will be able to
create web applications, deploy them on a personal team page, and recruit
volunteers, students, or workers on Mechanical Turk.

Very Best,
Jason Radford




* Volunteer ScienceVirtual Research Fellows ProgramCall for Applications,
Spring 2018Applicant Deadline: December 29*

*Program summary*

                Volunteer Science is launching an Virtual Research Fellows
program for researchers interested in creating web applications using the
platform. *The* *program is completely online* and intended to provide a
supportive community of researchers. During this semester-long program,
fellows receive free access to Volunteer Science’s researcher portal, free
training in building online applications, weekly coding sessions, and hands
on support from Volunteer Science staff. The program lasts for one semester
with the option to renew for an additional semester. The expectation is
that fellows will use this time to create, test, and deploy their web app.

*Application*

                To be considered, fellows must email 1) a* study abstract*,
2) a *participant recruitment abstract*, and 3) *contact information*
(name, institution, and email) for the applicant and other researchers
involved in the study to Jason Radford at j.radford at northeastern.edu. The
study abstract should be 200-300 words and include a description of the
research question(s), study design, and expected outcomes. The participant
recruitment abstract should be a 200-300 word description for how you the
fellow plan to recruit participants, whether volunteers, students, or
online workers. For ideas of the types of studies conducted on Volunteer
Science, please see our experiments
<https://volunteerscience.com/experiments/> and surveys
<https://volunteerscience.com/experiments/survey/> pages.

*Eligibility and Selection*

                Any researcher in a university, government agency, or
private company performing research for publication is eligible to apply.
Applicants will be selected based on whether the web application is a good
fit for Volunteer Science (i.e. whether it takes advantage of online
methods to create web apps and/or recruit participants). Special preference
to those whose study utilizes the unique features
<https://volunteerscience.com/docs/> of Volunteer Science. Preference will
also be given to traditionally under-resourced researchers, such as
graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers outside R1 and Western
institutions.

*Institutional Review*

                All research involving human subjects on Volunteer Science
requires proof of human subjects review. We recommend all applicants submit
institutional review documents now to ensure the process is complete by the
time your study will be finished. You may find current IRB documents for
Volunteer Science at https://volunteerscience.com/our_science/.

*Calendar of Events*

·         *Dec 29*: Deadline for Applications

·         *Jan 8*: Fellows announced

·         *Jan 19*: Mandatory Online Training

·         *Jan 26*: Weekly hacking sessions begin

·         *April 6*: Study Release Day

·         *May 4*: Spring 2017 Fellowship ends


-- 
Jason Radford
Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago
Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University
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