Friday, May 2, 2025
5/2/2025
Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Rehabilitation Research and Traumatic Brain Injury - The Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Rehabilitation Research and TBI will, over the course of this five-year project, build upon the infrastructure already in place. The GOAL is to increase research capacity by increasing the number of qualified clinician-researchers working in the field of TBI rehabilitation. The OBJECTIVES are to train six postdoctoral psychologists with prior clinical rehabilitation experience and expand their knowledge of rehabilitation research methodologies—including participatory action research (PAR)—by working with multidisciplinary teams of TBI researchers and individuals living with TBI. Research capacity building will be facilitated via mentoring on independent research projects and ongoing multidisciplinary collaborative TBI research projects. To ensure relevance to concerns of people living with TBI, Fellows engage in PAR-focused seminars and receive direct input from individuals with TBI. Performance measures will be used to monitor progress of the program and Fellows, with oversight provided by an external Advisory Board. Anticipated OUTCOMES include significant benefits to (1) Fellows as direct beneficiaries of training, (2) mentors who will increase their research productivity, (3) the larger disability research community which will be the recipient of well-trained rehabilitation researchers and high quality TBI research, and (4) consumers who will have direct contact with these trained clinical researchers. Expected PRODUCTS include six highly-qualified TBI rehabilitation researchers, who by completion of two years of training, will have completed a minimum of one independent research project, participated in a minimum of two ongoing collaborative TBI research projects, presented results to professional and consumer groups, submitted findings for publication in peer-reviewed journals, and participated in writing extramural grant proposals, including their own grant applications.
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