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Research Assistant
What is a research assistant?
A research assistant is usually an undergraduate student at UNCG or an individual who is looking to gain more experience before applying to job positions or graduate school. A research assistant may volunteer their time to the lab or earn course credit at UNCG for their work in the lab. In order to receive course credit, an assistant must register for PSY 433 and commit nine weekly lab hours, including an hour for lab meeting.
What kind of experience would I gain?
In the CoPE Lab, our research assistants have the opportunity to gain a wide variety of experiences and to learn what it means to conduct research in the field of psychology. Our lab members review and discuss journal articles once per week, as well as assist in the lab's current studies and conduct individual research projects. Our research assistants gain skills such as data entry, questionnaire coding, creating surveys, working with participants, collecting psychophysiology data, and much more.
How do I become a research assistant in the CoPE Lab?
In order to become a research assistant in the lab, you will want to express your interest via email. Please email Dr. Blair Wisco at bewisco@uncg.edu
Graduate Student
Is Dr. Wisco looking for new graduate students?
Dr. Wisco will accept a clinical psychology doctoral student for the 2023-2024 academic year. Students with a primary interest in PTSD would be a good fit with the lab. The incoming student would have opportunities to get involved in an NIH-funded project using ambulatory physiological assessment to measure reactivity to trauma cues in the daily lives of individuals diagnosed with PTSD and trauma-exposed controls. We also recently finished a lab-based project examining emotional and physiological effects of trauma-focused rumination, and have several active collaborations both within UNCG and with researchers at other institutions. Training is available in experimental psychopathology, ecological momentary assessment, and in acquisition and analysis of peripheral psychophysiology including heart rate variability, impedance cardiography, and skin conductance. Ongoing data collections focus on mixed-trauma civilian populations, but there are opportunities to conduct secondary analyses of datasets involving military veterans. In terms of my mentoring style, I use a "junior colleague" model, encouraging graduate students to develop their own lines of programmatic research with my guidance and support. Students from groups historically underrepresented in academia are especially encouraged to apply.
How do I apply to work with Dr. Wisco?
You can find more information on how to apply for the doctoral program here.
