Post by SEX Assessment on Feb 1, 2022 16:00:11 GMT -5
The Sexual health, Erotic life, and pleasure eXperiencing (SEX) Assessment, led by B. Ethan Coston (they/them; Advanced Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies), seeks a postdoctoral scholar to join the project team. This full-time (1.0 FTE), benefits eligible, remote position is available for one year (July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023), with the expectation that the scholar will work with the project team to secure additional funding for years 2+ and/or seek external postdoctoral funding through sources such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and/or other research and public health foundations.
The postdoctoral scholar will be appointed through Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Information about postdoctoral positions at VCU can be found here. The yearly salary will be $80,000-85,000. Additional internal funding for professional development, conference travel, and independent research endeavors may be available. This appointment includes health insurance coverage. Additional benefits for postdoctoral appointments can be viewed here.
The project is initially funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health program, which supports projects that advance health equity and offer “unconventional approaches and breakthrough ideas that can help lead the way to a future where everyone in the United States can live their healthiest life possible.”
The SEX Assessment is aimed at bringing together community members, students, scholars, policymakers and field experts to learn as much as possible about the pleasurable and positive aspects of sexuality. Using knowledge gained from daily dairies, focus groups, cognitive interviewing, and survey data, the multidisciplinary research team will measure and assess the breadth and depth of the sexuality prism, including sexual beliefs, desires, patterns of behaviors, and identities, with a focus on assets such as identity pride, community consciousness, self-esteem, affirmative models of consent, aspects of pleasure (including feelings, behaviors and physical outcomes), affirmative health behaviors and health-related outcomes. Together–and, with the goal of establishing a sustainable sexual health research center/institute–the team will inform meaningful and comprehensive community level sexual health initiatives, state and/or federal level sexual health education policies, and institutional/grant-funder priorities for sexual and gender minoritized health.
Learn more and apply here by 11:59p on March 1: vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/937?c=vcu
The postdoctoral scholar will be appointed through Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Information about postdoctoral positions at VCU can be found here. The yearly salary will be $80,000-85,000. Additional internal funding for professional development, conference travel, and independent research endeavors may be available. This appointment includes health insurance coverage. Additional benefits for postdoctoral appointments can be viewed here.
The project is initially funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health program, which supports projects that advance health equity and offer “unconventional approaches and breakthrough ideas that can help lead the way to a future where everyone in the United States can live their healthiest life possible.”
The SEX Assessment is aimed at bringing together community members, students, scholars, policymakers and field experts to learn as much as possible about the pleasurable and positive aspects of sexuality. Using knowledge gained from daily dairies, focus groups, cognitive interviewing, and survey data, the multidisciplinary research team will measure and assess the breadth and depth of the sexuality prism, including sexual beliefs, desires, patterns of behaviors, and identities, with a focus on assets such as identity pride, community consciousness, self-esteem, affirmative models of consent, aspects of pleasure (including feelings, behaviors and physical outcomes), affirmative health behaviors and health-related outcomes. Together–and, with the goal of establishing a sustainable sexual health research center/institute–the team will inform meaningful and comprehensive community level sexual health initiatives, state and/or federal level sexual health education policies, and institutional/grant-funder priorities for sexual and gender minoritized health.
Learn more and apply here by 11:59p on March 1: vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/937?c=vcu