Federal Work Study Student, Health Education Center

The University of Texas Medical Branch; Galveston (TX); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Texas Medical Branch currently seeks a student research assistant for interprofessional education and simulation studies at the Health Education Center. The role focuses on literature reviews, data collection, and assisting with analysis and manuscript preparation.

Responsibilities include cataloging publications in Zotero, data cleaning, creating codebooks, and supporting research projects under Dr. Kelly Grace's guidance.

Qualifications

• UTMB student enrolled at least half time.
• Interest in education-based research; some background in research helpful.
• Training and mentoring will be provided by Dr. Kelly Grace.

Responsibilities

• Identifying peer-reviewed publications on interprofessional education and simulation; cataloging in Zotero; writing literature reviews.
• Data and database management: data cleaning/processing; organizing data files with naming conventions; creating codebooks.
• Data analysis (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods).
• Manuscript editing.

Skills

Literature reviews

Data collection and analysis

Writing papers/publications

Zotero reference management

Education

High School Diploma

UTMB Student enrolled at least half time

Tools

Zotero

Job description

Minimum Qualifications:

High School Diploma, UTMB Student enrolled at least half time.

Minimum Qualifications:

High School Diploma, UTMB Student enrolled at least half time.

Job Description:

The student will act as a research assistant with responsibilities related to interprofessional education and simulation research projects for the Health Education Center Office of research, Evaluation, Assessment and Medical Prototyping. The student should have interest in education-based research, and some background in research would be helpful even if coursework related (developing literature reviews, data collection and analysis, writing papers/publications). For specific research skills that are needed for research projects, training and mentoring will be provided by Dr. Kelly Grace, assistant Director for Departmental Research, REAMP.

Job Duties:

• Identifying peer-reviewed publications around specified research topics in interprofessional education and simulation, cataloging and organizing the publications in reference manager Zotero, writing literature reviews.
• Data and database management- data cleaning/processing; managing data files with naming conventions/labels; creating codebooks.
• Data analysis (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods).
• Manuscript editing.

Salary Range:

Commensurate with experience.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Primary Location

United States-Texas-Galveston

Work Locations

1700 - Health Education Center

Job

Student TitlesRegular

Shift

Standard

Employee Status

Non-Manager

Job Level

Day Shift

Job Posting

Sep 25, 2026, 3:17:04 PM