Role Snapshot
Lead research scientist at UNC Chapel Hill's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute conducting interdisciplinary research on self-regulation interventions to promote resilience in children and youth facing chronic adversity. Serves as project leader on federally-funded research initiatives including the Be CALM mindfulness intervention currently in randomized controlled trials across North Carolina early college high schools.
Key Responsibilities: Conduct research on social-emotional interventions in educational contexts, provide leadership for research operations on the UPSIDE team, develop and maintain partnerships with education stakeholders to support school-based research implementation, and contribute to proposal development and dissemination of research results.
Skills & Tools: Expertise in research design, social-emotional and self-regulation intervention development and evaluation, educational research implementation, stakeholder partnership management, and proposal writing. Strong leadership, project management, and cross-functional collaboration abilities required.
Qualifications: Advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in psychology, education, public health, or related field with demonstrated research experience in behavioral interventions or educational research. 3+ years of relevant postdoctoral or research scientist experience preferred.
Location: In-Person
Compensation: $130K–$180K/yr (estimated)
Job Description
This position may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement that may include a partially remote work location, consistent with System Office policy. UNC Chapel Hill employees are generally required to reside within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned duty station.
The Research Scientist serves as a project leader on funded research project(s) at the Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development Institute or other collaborative research at UNC-Chapel Hill. The position will contribute leadership within Dr. Murray's Understanding and Promoting Self-regulation Interventions across Development (UPSIDE) Team. The UPSIDE team conducts interdisciplinary research that develops, implements, and evaluates self-regulation interventions that promote resilience for children and youth across the developmental spectrum from early childhood through young adulthood, with particular focus on youth who face chronic adversity. This includes a mindfulness-based intervention for middle and high school students called Be CALM which is currently being implemented and evaluated with federal funding in a randomized controlled trial within early college high schools across NC.
The Research Scientist conducts research on social-emotional interventions in educational contexts, provides leadership for research operations on the UPSIDE team, develops and maintains partnerships with education stakeholders to support implementation of research projects in schools, and contributes to proposal development and dissemination of results.
The Research Scientist serves as a project leader on funded research project(s) at the Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development Institute or other collaborative research at UNC-Chapel Hill. The position will contribute leadership within Dr. Murray's Understanding and Promoting Self-regulation Interventions across Development (UPSIDE) Team. The UPSIDE team conducts interdisciplinary research that develops, implements, and evaluates self-regulation interventions that promote resilience for children and youth across the developmental spectrum from early childhood through young adulthood, with particular focus on youth who face chronic adversity. This includes a mindfulness-based intervention for middle and high school students called Be CALM which is currently being implemented and evaluated with federal funding in a randomized controlled trial within early college high schools across NC.
The Research Scientist conducts research on social-emotional interventions in educational contexts, provides leadership for research operations on the UPSIDE team, develops and maintains partnerships with education stakeholders to support implementation of research projects in schools, and contributes to proposal development and dissemination of results.
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