Student Research Assistant

Position Details

Location: New Westminster Campus

Salary Range: $19.53/hour

The Opportunity

You’re passionate about research and bringing new knowledge to the forefront alongside others who are just as driven as you are in their search for answers. Your curiosity fuels your learning, but where you really shine is your ability to collaborate with diverse groups like students, faculty experts and employees, and community partners. If this sounds like you, we need your talents! Apply to the Student Research Assistant position, and gain real-world research experience, while creating meaningful career connections.

Who We Are

Do what you love. Be good at it. That’s how Douglas College defines a great career. It’s a philosophy that resonates through our classrooms, our offices and our boardrooms. It inspires our students and drives us to make Douglas College one of BC’s Top Employers. We love what we do. And we’re looking for passionate, motivated people to join us in making one of Canada’s best degree-granting colleges even better.

Be a part of an institution where everyone is committed to empowering successful students, creating responsive learning environments, fostering social and environmental responsibility, and supporting healthy learning and work environments.

What We Offer

We offer the opportunity to do what you do best in an inclusive, collaborative and collegial environment. At Douglas, our goal is to ensure our people are valued and supported by promoting a healthy work-life balance, professional growth, and development, as well as a safe and respectful workplace.

• Transit-accessible campuses
• Hybrid work arrangements for eligible positions
• Competitive salaries
• Excellent Health and Dental Benefits for eligible positions
• Defined-Benefit Pension Plan for eligible positions
• Professional Development funding
• Access to our Fitness Centres and Classes

What It Takes

This position involves working on the Changing the Conversation project, which aims to support those with lived experience of housing insecurity to advocate for various forms of housing justice. The role includes doing literature reviews, supporting qualitative research, attending project events, and working on other various tasks relevant to the project.

• Performing background research using the resources of Douglas College
• Meeting and corresponding with supervisor and other project participants to share and discuss research findings
• Helping with qualitative research or project activities.
• Contributing to written outputs for the broader research project on housing justice
• Working on student-led projects on the theme of housing justice mutually agreed upon with supervisor.

• The ideal candidate will have some interest in at least two of the following academic disciplines: philosophy, urban geography, politics, psychology, history, or the arts
• Successful completion of any course in the above disciplines with a B+ or higher grade
• Lived experience of housing insecurity, broadly understood, or experience working with populations experiencing different forms of housing insecurity would be an asset

• The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College throughout the work term; OR
• The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College in the term immediately preceding the work term and has indicated an intention to enroll at the college in the term immediately following the work term; OR
• The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C. throughout the work term

• The international student is enrolled in full-time studies at Douglas College, throughout the academic year; OR
• The international student, who is not a Douglas College student, but is an international student at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C., has a valid Study Permit that has the notation – “May accept employment on or off campus if meeting eligibility criteria as per R186 (F), (V) or (W). Must cease working if no longer meeting these criteria.” Proof of enrollment in full-time studies from the other post-secondary institution is required.

An original copy of a Social Insurance Number (SIN) and an original Study Permit are required by law before commencing work at Douglas College. Qualified Douglas College students meeting the above criteria will be given first preference over students of other qualifying institutions.

Additional Information

The position is located at the New Westminster campus, though some activities will occur off-campus in New Westminster at project partner sites. Hours of work: up to a maximum of 20 hours/week. The work terms for this position are:

1. Winter 2025: January 6, 2025 – April 25, 2025
2. Summer 2025: May 6, 2025 – August 18, 2025

Posting Number: 02345SA

Position Title: Student Research Assistant, Housing Justice

Anticipated Start Date: 01/06/2025

Equity Statement

Douglas College is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and equitable learning and working environment. In support of this journey, we welcome all people to apply, including people from groups that are experiencing inequity, including, but not limited, to Indigenous Peoples, racialized or persons of colour, persons with mental or physical disabilities, persons who identify as women, and/or persons of marginalized sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and persons of all faith identities, age, marital status, and parental status.