Research and Data Analysis

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**Position summary**
**Research and data analysis (Qualitative & Quantitative**

The researcher will be working on research projects investigating quality of life of people living with multiple chemical sensitivity and will be involved in a full range of research activities including literature review, performing a scoping review, conducting interviews, data collection, coding, and analysis, and preparing the manuscript for publication. The research assistant is required to have experience in quantitative and qualitative research and demonstrate knowledge in using data analysis software.

**General duties**
- Perform a scoping literature review on the current understanding and gaps in knowledge on multiple chemical sensitivity in Canada.
- Identify variables of interest in the CCHS in relation to the literature and the research question.
- Identify statistical tests to answer research questions.
- Complete all related tasks in relation to the initiation of the research project (ethics approval, etc.).
- Ensure the recruitment, scheduling, and screening of participants
- Conduct semi-structured qualitative interviews.
- Perform qualitative data collection, ensure data management, including transcription of qualitative responses and data entry, coding, analysis, and interpretation with the help of statistical software.
- Conduct statistical analysis of survey data
- Perform descriptive and analytical data analyses.
- Perform literature searches on other relevant studies related to the research.
- Write and edit documents, and prepare data for communication of reports, articles, and presentations in both official languages.
- Assist in the drafting of submissions to journals.
- Collaborate with the team and attend meetings.
- Adhere to responsible ethical guidelines.
- Perform any other assigned activity.

**Education and experience**
- Masters’ degree in sociology, public health, psychology, science, and other related fields.
- Good practical experience in research, qualitative, and quantitative analysis.
- Experience with qualitative coding/analysis and relevant software (eg. Nvivo, Excel).
- Experience with quantitative coding and statistical analysis
- Experience working with survey data (eg. CCHS)
- Familiarity with non-parametric statistical analyzes, data cleaning and stratification.
- Experience working with vulnerable populations while considering different linguistic contexts (English and French).
- Experience using Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint to analyse and present population health data.

**Desired skills**
- Bilingualism (spoken and written) in French and English.
- Strong writing and communication skills.
- Knowledge of MCS is an asset.
- Possess the capacity to synthesize information and data.
- Create successful presentations and data visualizations for varying audiences.
- Conduct all research activities within the prescribed period/delay and be able to respect the research ethics as well as the predetermined deadlines.
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work in a team.
- Experience conducting interviews.
- Experience publishing academic papers.
- Experience with statistical analysis software (eg. R, SPSS).

Status: full-time (35 hrs/week)

Work site: working online

**Salary**: 23$/hour
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- **Résumé du poste**

**Recherche et analyse de données (qualitatives et quantitatives)**

Le chercheur travaillera sur des projets de recherche portant sur la qualité de vie des personnes atteintes de sensibilité chimique multiple et sera impliqué dans une gamme complète d'activités de recherche, y compris l'analyse documentaire, la réalisation d'un examen de la portée, la conduite d'entretiens, la collecte de données, le codage et l'analyse, et la préparation du manuscrit pour la publication. L'assistant de recherche devra avoir de l'expérience en recherche quantitative et qualitative et démontrer ses connaissances dans l'utilisation de logiciels d'analyse de données.

**Fonctions générales**
- Effectuer toutes les tâches liées au lancement du projet de recherche (approbation éthique, etc.).
- Effectuer une revue de la littérature sur la compréhension actuelle et les lacunes dans les connaissances sur la sensibilité chimique multiple au Canada.
- Identifier les variables d'intérêt dans l'ESCC en relation avec la littérature et la question de recherche.
- Identifier les tests statistiques pour répondre aux questions de recherche.
- Assurer le recrutement, l'établissement du calendrier et la sélection des participants.
- Mener des entretiens qualitatifs semi-structurés.
- Effectuer la collecte de données qualitatives, assurer la gestion des données, notamment la transcription des réponses qualitatives et la saisie des données, le codage, l'analyse et l'interprétation à l'aide de logiciels statistiques.
- Effectuer l'analyse statistique des données d'enquête
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