Student Research Opportunities

Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

The TRU Brain & Behaviour Lab is strongly committed to hiring based on merit with a focus on fostering diversity of thought within our research group. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our team including, but not limited to, women, Indigenous, Black and People of Colour, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.

Upcoming Opportunities

Project: Naturalistic mapping of cortical networks in developing infants

  • Undergraduate Research Assistants (URAs). The lab will be hiring two highly organized, professional, and reliable URAs to collect video and fNIRS data from 4 to 12-month-old infants as they engage in spontaneous play with their caregivers. Employment will commence from September 30, 2023 until April 30, 2024 with possibility to continue into the summer of 2024. These are paid positions of $21/hour plus 14% to cover fringe benefits. Students must be able to dedicate approximately 10 hours per week in order to be successful in this position.
  • Psyc 2910 Research Apprenticeship Course. Dr. Karl will be supervising a Psyc 2910 Research Apprenticeship course in the Winter 2024 semester. The course will support four detail-oriented and highly reliable undergraduate students who will participate in annotating and coding highspeed videos of human infants that will then be used by MSc Data Science students to train neural networks for machine learning analyses. These are unpaid positions as students must enroll in the Psyc 2910 Research Apprenticeship course, for which they will receive 3 course credits towards their degree. Students must be able to dedicate an average of 10 hours per week in order to complete this course successfully.

Project: Individual differences in the development of object grasping and manipulation strategies

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant (URA). The lab will be hiring one highly organized, reliable, and detail-oriented URA to develop a behavioural coding scheme for infant object contact and grasping strategies from pre-recorded videos. Upon completing the coding scheme, the URA will be responsible for applying the coding scheme to a large dataset of pre-recorded videos using datavyu software and organizing the data in excel sheets for statistical analyses. Employment will commence from late June until Dec 30, 2023. This is a paid position of $21/hour plus 14% to cover fringe benefits. Students must be able to dedicate approximately 10 hours per week in order to be successful in this position.

Project: Neural and behavioural correlates of developmentally acquired cerebral visual impairment

  • There are currently no upcoming student research opportunities for this project.

Project: Top-down influences on visual perception

  • There are currently no upcoming student research opportunities for this project.

To Apply

Please complete a Student Researcher Application Form and email it, along with unofficial transcripts and an up-to-date Resume or CV, to Dr. Jenni Karl at jkarl@tru.ca.