NDRI Welcomes Four Students Selected for the
2005 Summer Research
with NIDA Program
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Summer Research with NIDA introduces high school and undergraduate college students from underrepresented groups to drug abuse research through placements with NIDA grantees. Student fellows work with the grantees for 8-10 weeks. The experience may include formal courses, participation in meetings, data collection activities, data analysis, laboratory experiments, manuscript preparation and library research. The program exposes students to drug abuse research and encourages them to pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral research.
Eloise Dunlap, PhD
Transient Domesticity & Violence in Distressed Household
R01 DA009056
The purpose of this research project is to document how changes in mates
among poor persons, especially those using illegal drugs, impact household
and family life. The project is also interested in the causes and
consequences of violence in relationships. Data collection involves
conducting confidential interviews with several persons concerning
male-female relations, household formation, and family life. It is
the project’s goal to inform policymakers and those who allocate
public and private funds and other resources about the often hidden
and poorly documented stresses on poor, inner-city families. Interviews
and observations are used to describe normative patterns. Observations
will help to develop typologies and processes and the social context
in which family life takes place. Interviews are to be open-ended,
in-depth, and audiotaped. Ethnographic field observations complement
the self-report interview data.
Fellows engaging in research at NDRI will be closely mentored by experienced project staff to obtain the necessary skills and understanding of advanced behavioral research. The fellows will have an assortment of research-related tasks to perform with the opportunity to work directly with research data, learning how to enter and code data into advanced databases. The fellows will learn to operate highly sophisticated programs such as SPSS©, FileMaker Pro ©, Microsoft Excel©, and PowerPoint©. They will also have the opportunity to work on manuscripts for publication through library and internet searches and careful checking of references.
Fellows will acquire experience in the formulation and preparation of research findings to be presented at scientific meetings. Fellows will be required to attend certain NDRI Training Institute courses where they will learn about drug use, HIV/AIDS, and a number of social problems (http://training.ndri.org/). The goal of the program is to provide both specific research skills and an overall understanding of research project components and management.
The Fellows will be mentored by and work in conjunction with NIH-funded researchers and will gain knowledge about what NIH research entails, including, but not limited to, the possible areas noted below:
- Training on confidentiality and protection of human subjects
- Participation in meetings with research investigators
- Computerized project data management instruction and work
- General project/office work
- Training on how to search and review scientific literature and how to formulate research questions
- Discussion of research literature and findings
The funding for Summer Research with NIDA is provided by the Special
Populations Office of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
June, 2005