As volunteer coordinator, one of my current goals this year is to compile a list of more specific volunteer opportunities with professors and detail the exact studies and work involved. I have started collecting information about ongoing projects that Western faculty members, grad students, PhD students and undergraduate thesis students need help with. The list will keep growing with time!

Below is information on researchers who are currently looking for volunteers to work in their labs and each position is listed by area of interest.

Cognition and Perception

Researcher(s): Dr J Bruce Morton
Title of project: Development of cognitive flexibility in preschool aged children
Area of interest: Cognitive Development
Time commitment: (if applicable): 3-5 hours per week
Contact email: bmorton3@uwo.ca

Researcher(s): Ken McRae
Title of project: Sentence comprehension
Area of interest: Cognitive Psychology
Time commitment: (if applicable): 5-10 hours per week
Contact email: kenm@uwo.ca

Researcher(s): Dr. Debra Jared
Title of project: Cognitive processes in reading
Area of interest: Cognition, Psychology of Language
Time commitment: (if applicable): A student volunteer would need to have at least a few hours free in the week between Mon-Fri 9-4
Contact email: djjared@uwo.ca

Developmental

Researcher(s): Dr J Bruce Morton
Title of project: Development of cognitive flexibility in preschool aged children
Area of interest: Cognitive Development
Time commitment: (if applicable): 3-5 hours per week
Contact email: bmorton3@uwo.ca

Researcher(s): Kali Trzesniewski
Title of project: The Development of Self-Esteem
Area of interest: Self-Esteem Development
Time commitment: (if applicable): At least 6 hours per week
Contact email: k.trz@uwo.ca

Researcher(s): Dr. Lynne Zarbatany
Title of project: Children’s Peer Groups
Area of interest: Developmental Psychology
Time commitment: (if applicable): Must be available for several consecutive hours between 9 and 4 at least 2 days per week to assist with data collection in London public schools. This will occur intermittently in fall and winter.
Contact email: lynnez@uwo.ca

Industrial/Organizational

Researcher(s): Bernd Marcus, Anita Taylor, Stephanie Hastings, Alexandra Sturm
Title of project: Antecedents and Structure of Counterproductive Work Behavior: A Meta-analysis
Area of interest: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Time commitment: (if applicable): flexible
Contact email: otaylor3@uwo.ca


Clinical

Researcher(s): Dr. Peter Hoaken, Samara Perez
Title of project: Winning at Texas Hold'em: an examination of the psychological variables predicting poker play outcomes and pathological gambling
Area of interest: Clinical
Time commitment: (if applicable): Thursday evenings for lab sessions
Contact email: hoaken@uwo.ca">phoaken@uwo.ca, sperez3@uwo.ca

Researcher(s): Dr. David Dozois, Francois Botha
Title of project: Stigma related to mental disorders
Area of interest: Clinical/Social psychology
Time commitment: (if applicable): At least 5 hours per week
Contact email: fbotha@uwo.ca

The responsibilities of the volunteers will mostly includes running participants and data entry, but may expand in the future.

Researcher(s): Sol Ibarra-Rovillard (PhD student working under supervision of Dr. Nick Kuiper)
Title of project: Reactions to social comments
Area of interest: Clinical/Social psychology
Time commitment: (if applicable): 45-50 hours in total (I need help with data entry, there may be also opportunities to get involved in other aspects of the study or in other studies in the future)
Contact email: mibarrar@uwo.ca


Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience

Researcher(s): Ken Valyear (PhD student), Jody Culham (supervisor)
Title of project: fMRI and behavioural investigations of learned object use
Area of interest: Cognitive Behavioural Neuroscience
Time commitment: (if applicable): We will be running studies both during days and evenings, so times are flexible depending on availability
Contact email: kfvalyear@gmail.com

Personality

Social

Researcher(s): Irene Cheung
Title of project: Thinking about Past Events
Area of interest: Social/ Interpersonal forgiveness
Time commitment: (if applicable): 5 hours per week
Contact email: icheung4@uwo.ca

Researcher(s): Sol Ibarra-Rovillard (PhD student working under supervision of Dr. Nick Kuiper)
Title of project: Reactions to social comments
Area of interest: Clinical/Social psychology
Time commitment: (if applicable): 45-50 hours in total (I need help with data entry, there may be also opportunities to get involved in other aspects of the study or in other studies in the future)
Contact email: mibarrar@uwo.ca

If you are looking for a specific area of interest to volunteer in, and are not sure how to go about this or any general help, please feel free to email me (Samara Perez, your volunteer coordiantor) anytime at: sperez3@uwo.ca