Posting active date: 22/1/2025
Name of corporate partner: Holland Bloorview
Application deadline: 2/28/2025
Corporate partner contact name and email: Mark Dennis: [email protected]
Location: Toronto – in office
Job title: 2025 Ward Summer Research Student – Laura McAdam
Job type: Internship (temporary full time)
Reporting to: Laura McAdam
Department: Bloorview Research Institute
Length (contract/internship): 12 weeks
Salary or range: $17.20 per hour
Start date: 5/5/2025
End date: 7/25/2025
Exclusive to Pathways Alumni? No
About the organization:
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada’s largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital and is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. It has ranked amongst Canada’s top 40 research hospitals for more than a decade. Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People and Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.
Job Summary:
The Ward Summer Student Research program provides an opportunity to experience a unique interdisciplinary mentorship experience. Successful incumbents will have opportunities to work with their mentor on a research project, attend our Lunch ‘n’ Learns and participate in the annual Ward Summer Student Research Day where they will have an opportunity to present their findings to the organization and its visitors. The student be working with Dr. McAdam and the neuromuscular research team. They will be conducting research to develop a practical therapy resource for rehabilitation therapists working with children with spinal muscular atrophy. This role will involve analyzing interviews of therapists and caregivers and co-creating a resource. The student will gain practical experience in a repertoire of clinical research skills.
Job responsibility:
- Contribute to qualitative analysis of interviews
- Contribute report writing
- Contribute to generation of a resource
- Attend lab meetings
Experience & Qualification requirements:
- Students must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program and completed second year or higher by the start of this program
- Minimum GPA of 85% or over
- Experience with qualitative research is an asset
- Demonstrated understanding of a Family-Centered Care service delivery model
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a team and be a team player
Please consult this webpage for more information.
How to apply:
The full application process can be found here.
Please fill out this form by February 7th ahead of your application: 2024-25 COS RASI mentees.
Apply here once form is completed.
Please submit the following in one (1) pdf file in the order indicated below:
1. Cover letter
2. Copy of your most recent curriculum vitae (CV)
3. Copy of your most recent unofficial university transcript