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Interested in joining the KiDS Lab? There are opportunities to participate in our work at the undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. Students in the KiDS Lab have a variety of interests relating to child and family well-being. Involvement in the lab includes research activities and professional development activities. Below includes details about the various training opportunities available at the KiDS Lab.
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URI Research Assistant Positions
Dr. Parent accepts applications from URI undergraduate students and recent graduates to join our lab on an ongoing basis. Applicants being considered for a Research Assistant position will be contacted for an interview. Undergraduate and volunteer research assistants must commit at least 9 hours per week for at least two terms (fall, spring, and summer). Students can join the lab as a volunteer, for independent study credit (3 per semester), or for hourly paid positions (minimum 1 semester of volunteer or study credit required). Students interested in completing an honors thesis should participate in the lab for at least one year before beginning these projects.
Research Assistant Activities
Email Dr. Parent with your resume/CV if you are interested.
Research Assistant Activities
- Coordinating clinical research activities with a diverse multi-disciplinary team, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, behavioral health specialists, nurses, administrative staff, and psychiatrists
- IRB protocol development and management
- Consent and assessment families for research studies
- Collecting and entering daily diary assessments from parents and youth
- Clinical interviews and survey administration
- Assisting with DNA collection
- Managing passive wearable research devices and their data (e.g., Fitbit and Fitabase)
- Contacting families for follow-up assessment and coordinating remote DNA collection
- Conducting literature reviews in parenting science, sleep health, epigenomics, adversity, and developmental psychopathology
- Didactics on advanced research and professional development topics (e.g., applying to graduate school)
- Co-author conference presentations
- Co-author peer-reviewed publications
- Outreach to community organizations
- Data analysis and preparation
- Conduct a study as lead author
- Develop an honors thesis
Email Dr. Parent with your resume/CV if you are interested.
Summer Internship Opportunities
The KiDS Lab offers summer internship training in partnership with the Children's Partial Hospital Programs at Bradley Hospital. Positions are not funded but may be supported through university summer stipend programs. Past students have come from Brown University and the College of the Holy Cross. Summer interns have the opportunity to assist with clinical research studies, shadow or co-facilitate group therapy sessions, and learn from a multi-disciplinary team, including psychologists, nurses, psychiatrists, OT, and behavioral health specialists.
Summer Internship Training Aims
The duration of the internship is 10 weeks, with 16-24 hours per week of clinical research activities at Bradley Hospital or the Bradley/Hasbro Children’s Research Center. Hours are 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with some remote work possible.
Summer Internship Training Aims
- To provide the summer intern with a strong working knowledge of translational science, including the integration of biological mechanisms and clinical intervention methods.
- To provide the intern with broad clinical research training in youth mental health and sleep health
- To provide the intern with research training in preparation for a clinical research career, including, but not limited to, doctoral studies in clinical or developmental psychology, applied health care careers, and medical school.
The duration of the internship is 10 weeks, with 16-24 hours per week of clinical research activities at Bradley Hospital or the Bradley/Hasbro Children’s Research Center. Hours are 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with some remote work possible.
Doctoral Students
Dr. Parent will be reviewing applications for the upcoming application cycle (due Dec. 1 2023).
Dr. Parent reviews applications for URI's clinical psychology doctoral program. To ensure fairness of the application process, Dr. Parent only meets with prospective applicants after the December 1st application due deadline. A diverse range of perspectives, lived experiences, and skills are highly valued by the KiDS Lab. Dr. Parent does not review GRE scores and only considers GPA from the last two years of coursework. Competitive applicants have gained two years of research experience during undergraduate, post-bacc, or both training settings. Dr. Parent is interested in mentoring students with various career aspirations, including academic research, academic teaching, industry and technology careers, state and federal policy, and other areas.
Dr. Parent reviews applications for URI's clinical psychology doctoral program. To ensure fairness of the application process, Dr. Parent only meets with prospective applicants after the December 1st application due deadline. A diverse range of perspectives, lived experiences, and skills are highly valued by the KiDS Lab. Dr. Parent does not review GRE scores and only considers GPA from the last two years of coursework. Competitive applicants have gained two years of research experience during undergraduate, post-bacc, or both training settings. Dr. Parent is interested in mentoring students with various career aspirations, including academic research, academic teaching, industry and technology careers, state and federal policy, and other areas.
Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-Oppression, and Activism
The KIDS is committed to fostering a supportive, educational, empowering work environment free from all forms of sexual harassment, racism, oppression, discrimination, exploitation, and intimidation. This allows each of our team members, and our team as a whole, to learn, work, and thrive and more broadly, to help promote a more equitable world through our work. As such, all KIDS lab members are expected to commit to an anti-racist, anti-oppression, and activism-oriented approach to clinical and developmental science. We use the ADDRESSING intersectionality framework (Hays, 2016) to guide our understanding and approach to culturally responsive care and research. Our shared goal is to uplift marginalized individuals and groups and to act against systems of oppression, both within our lab team and through our scientific endeavors.
Select Student Awards & Honors
The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (F31)
- Juliana Acosta (Co-Sponsor)
- Karissa DiMarzio (Sponsor)
- Jessica Smith (Co-Sponsor)
- Alexandra Sullivan (Project Mentor)
- Chelsea Dale
- Geraldine Cadet
- Emoni McGregor
- Alejandro Torres
Workshops
The KiDS Lab offers workshops in 2-hour, half-day, and full-day formats on the following topics:
- Tech parenting and youth screen time
- Behavioral parent training and coaching
- Youth sleep health
- Supporting healthy child emotion regulation
- Childhood adversity and trauma-informed intervention