Dr. Beatrice Beebe – Two-Year Volunteer Job Description: Mother-Infant Filming Lab New York State Psychiatric Institute
Recruiting now for Fall 2020
A volunteer position in our lab is ideal for a student who has graduated from college and is interested in going to graduate school. It is also ideal for students who are in a Master’s program who want to be involved in a research internship.
Our Communication Sciences Lab specializes in research on mother-infant communication. We are housed in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI), 1051 Riverside Drive. NYSPI is a joint venture of Columbia University and New York State. The Lab runs a basic research program on mother-infant face-to-face communication, and its
associations with maternal depression/anxiety, infant prematurity, mother and infant trauma in the
World Trade Center Disaster of September 11, 2001, infant attachment and cognition, environmental
toxins and epigenetic mechanisms, and young adult outcomes. We run our lab with volunteers. We usually have about a dozen volunteers from various schools around the city. A volunteer position in our lab is ideal for students who are between college and graduate school, who are interested in research experience, and who want to get into a PhD program in Clinical or Developmental Psychology. We also consider undergraduates with strong research interests if they can meet our schedule. The student will get hands-on experience interacting with subjects, coordinating and observing filmed interactions, and learning from other researchers involved in the study. A 2-year commitment is essential, because we need the continuity. Please think carefully about whether this is right for you.
Our lab runs on Tuesdays from 10am to 6pm and Thursdays from 10am to 6pm. We are looking for
people who can give two full days.
I am very grateful for your interest. Please think carefully about a position in our lab. We cannot afford to have people drop out of these positions. If you are interested please ask 2 people from the academic community to email me with a short recommendation. Do not hesitate to email me with any questions (beatrice.beebe@nyspi.columbia.edu).
Please see our website for more information.
