Job Information
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing Social Impact Researcher in New York, New York
About this Job
The PRIISM Center (https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/priism/) is looking for a researcher to support the Háblame Bebé & Nurse-Family Partnership: Improving the home language environment for low-income Hispanic families project. This researcher will be funded by the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at NYU. The researcher will be funded full-time throughout the summer of 2021.
Project Description
Háblame Bebé is the first mobile phone application to provide low-income Hispanic caregivers with evidence-based information about bilingual language development and promote sociolinguistic pride and advocate for speaking Spanish within the home. We are implementing Háblame Bebé into the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a non-profit organization which arranges home visits from registered nurses to low-income first-time mothers. Access to Háblame Bebé has been linked with improved parent-child language interactions and increased Hispanic sociolinguistic pride, but has not been tested for use in home visiting programs. We hypothesize that layering this innovative Spanish-language intervention into NFP standards of care will improve language interactions between caregivers and their children.
Responsibilities
Work closely with PI and graduate students on cleaning and analyzing NIH funded data
Work independently and collaboratively with a team
If interested, there will be opportunities to work on presentations and communications of results to the public, in both formal (conferences) and non-formal (social media) outlets
Evaluation
- The researcher will meet virtually with the PI on a regular basis (weekly or bi-weekly) to check in and obtain feedback on completed assignments. Researcher may be asked to submit periodic progress reports.