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Jobs

Director of Community Engagement and Participant Experience - Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative (WBHI)

The Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative (WBHI) seeks a dynamic and collaborative leader to serve as Director of Community Partnerships and Participant Experience. This position will establish and lead a comprehensive strategy for community partnership, participant engagement, and public education across a multi-site women's brain health research network.

The Director will cultivate trusted relationships with participants, community organizations, healthcare providers, advocacy groups, and local stakeholders to ensure that research is informed by the voices and experiences of the communities it seeks to serve. Through community-engaged research practices, educational programming, and participant-centered initiatives, the Director will help advance equitable participation in scientific research while strengthening the public impact of the Initiative's discoveries.

Postdoctoral Scholar: Curiosity & Character Development, Schooler META Lab, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

META Lab at UC Santa Barbara seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to help lead a three-year, multi-institution initiative on cultivating curiosity as an intellectual virtue in higher education. 

The project, funded by the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University, integrates an evidence-based, app-delivered curiosity program into classrooms, wellness programming, and campus culture at UCSB and George Mason University (GMU). Building on published pilot work showing that curiosity can be trained and that it catalyzes broader positive development, the project asks how these gains scale, and how curiosity supports belonging and academic success among first-generation, Pell-eligible, and transfer students.

Lecturer Pool

The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified lecturers (part-time) for anticipated openings throughout the year including Summer Session.

Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from quarter to quarter, depending on the needs of the department. Terms and conditions of employment are subject to UC policy and any appropriate collective bargaining agreement. Salary is based on UC's salary scales.