Research Student Assistant Position at the Neuropsychiatric Research Unit

Research Student The Neuropsychiatric Research Unit is currently seeking multiple research student assistants to work on a large-scale population-based research project. In partnership with the Ontario Science Centre (OSC), we are conducting a study looking at genetic and environmental impacts on childhood neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related medical disorders.  The research project called Spit for Science is being conducted at the Ontario Science Centre (OSC).  All shifts for this project will be at the OSC. We are looking for staff who are available to work Saturday and Sunday shifts from […]

Better Sleep Lunch and Learn (presented by Hart House RAWC & Women’s College Hospital)

Hart House RAWC is proud to announce the Better Sleep Lunch and Learn in collaboration with Women’s College Hospital. Join us on November 22nd 2019 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at Hart House’s South Sitting Room for an overview of the medications and psychological strategies that can safely and effectively improve your sleep. Refreshments will be served, but spots are limited so please RSVP in advance: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-better-sleep-lunch-and-learn-tickets-75199268035

Spirit of Life Volunteer Opportunity

The Spirit of Life is looking for volunteers to help out with their social skills program for special needs children. The volunteer will help with classroom management, and assist individual children with special needs. The program runs every Saturday or Sunday, lasting for 12 weeks for each run. Location is Markham. Each session per week is about 3 hours (morning or afternoon). If you have time to spare and want to gain experience working with special needs children, please contact us below by filling out an interest survey:http://solhc.ca/index.php/volunteer

Recruiting Research Assistants for Psychological Research in Chinese Language

What is it about? There are a lot of creative geniuses who have changed our worlds. We are interested in creativity and what makes artists creative. Because of the limitation of of research context (we are studying artist in China, we are only hiring for people who can speak, write and speak Chinese (Mandarin) What will you do? We offer training and valuable research experience for graduate school applications. We are asking for 5 to 12 hours per week. Your consent means you will Collaborate with PhDs  Transcribe interviews and translate interviews Work with other Ras with running experiments and […]

Participants for the Computational Cognitive Development Lab

The Computational Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Toronto (downtown campus) is looking for adults to participate in a 15-20 minute computer study for $5! Participants must be 18+ years, have no form of colour blindness, and have not participated previously in the study. If you are interested please send an email to participate.cocodev@gmail.com with your availability.

Recruiting Participants for the Poirot Study

The Poirot study in the Memory and Perception Lab investigates aspects of episodic memory. In this study, we ask participants to come into our lab to watch an episode of a TV show – Agatha Christie’s Poirot. If you have seen any episodes of this show, please inform your experimenter prior to scheduling. After viewing the episode in lab and filling out some questionnaires, we send you home with a FitBit device to measure your physical activity and sleep patterns, all while going about your day as usual. [We also may ask you to log on to our website to […]

Recruiting participants with dark brown/black eyes for Human Factors experiment

The Cognitive Engineering Lab is recruiting participants for an ongoing Human Factors experiment that investigates the accuracy and precision of the eye tracking technology integrated in the FOVE Virtual Reality headset. We are specifically looking for participants with dark brown/black eyes.  Participants will be paid $15/hr for approximately 1hrs of their time. Please see the attached recruitment letter for additional information.