Summer Research Assistant - Latinx Hate Crime and Health
The graduate research assistant will assist project leads in collecting, cleaning and analyzing survey data. This work includes monitoring survey progress, processing participant remunerations, cleaning and recoding data and conducting preliminary data analysis. The research assistant will also assist with qualitative interview coding and analysis.
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Location:
Boston
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Semester:
Summer 2025
Application
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Project Title
Understanding the Health Care Needs of Latinx Victims of Hate Crimes
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Faculty / Project Lead
Carlos Cuevas and Amy Farrell
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Project Description
This multidisciplinary, cross-sectional, mixed-methods research project will accomplish four main goals. First, the project will evaluate the rate of bias events, hate crimes, and lifetime victimization amongst Latinxs. Second, the project will examine the role of cultural factors (acculturation, acculturative stress, etc.) on the relationship between bias events and physical and mental health outcomes. Third, the project will examine responses to bias events among Latinx adults via formal and informal help-seeking, health service utilization, and resistance strategies. Finally, this project will capture how hate and bias incidents impact people within the community using novel measurement approaches to capture the aspect of bias events as “message” offenses. Additionally, we will collect qualitative data to explore the mechanisms through which bias events impact access to services such as health care and the criminal justice system as well as the individual and community impacts of hate crime incidents. The project will collect data from 900 Latinx adults across three communities in the US as well as 45 qualitative interviews from individuals who experienced bias victimization within the sample.
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Qualifications Necessary
Experience using Qualtrics and Stata software. Experience conducting qualitative interview and/or using NVivo qualitative analysis software. Strong written and oral communication and critical thinking skills.
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Hours per Week
20 Hour Position