Research Rigor & Ethics

The UWM BraIN Laboratory is committed to ethical, evidence-based science that aims to improve adolescent health while promoting a welcoming environment for all students, staff, and research participant families. Utilizing a multi-tiered approach, we strive to uphold APA ethics and scientific rigor as we create a fun, equitable, welcoming, and respectful environment. We respect, value, and consider life experience and expertise from a range of identities and backgrounds (e.g., race, ethnicity, culture, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, religious affiliation, nationality, age, and socioeconomic status). We are committed to anti-racist and anti-discrimination attitudes and actions.  We strive to integrate this mission across several domains such as the lab management, student recruitment and mentorship, research design and analysis, participant engagement, developing community relationships and collaborations, and dissemination of research findings back to community partners (e.g., parents, youth, educators, mental health providers, medical professionals, health policymakers, and other scientists).  

Importantly, we recognize that education, training, self-awareness, cross cultural understanding, and self-growth are an ongoing, lifelong process for us all; therefore, we agree to approach learning and discovery with humility, respect, self-reflection, education, and accountability. We aim to reduce barriers to research, promote mentorship and funding opportunities, amplify scholarship, and increase dissemination for communities impacted by mental health and substance use issues, especially those who are disproportionately impacted and traditionally under served. We also aim to create a creative "incubator" environment to cultivate growth in undergraduate students' fund of knowledge, technical skills, and professional development- we welcome all of those who are new to world of science! 

We often have volunteer and paid research assistant positions, starting at entry-level positions for students without research experience (other relevant work experience, such as volunteering with youth, is encouraged). If interested, email the BraIN lab at uwmbrainlab@gmail.com.

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We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.