Samantha Martin-Ferris

-Part-time Graduate Research Assistant position.

- Duties include conducting data analysis on large datasets on health determinants and presenting findings.

-Received training in logistic regression, gap analysis and advanced statistics training in SPSS and Excel.

• Full-time lab research assistant position focused on quantitative sciences
• Duties include: conducting library data management, assisting with systematic reviews, providing quantitative data analysis on health science projects.
• Prepared and presented at national research conferences.

• Provided critical research examining information on Indigenous youth in care, including qualitative and quantitative data
• Duties included: literature reviews, environmental and jurisdictional scans, as well as in depth data analysis
• Worked collaboratively in a team of researchers to provide interdisciplinary analysis on tight deadlines
• Prepared and presented work at the executive level

• Was employed as a part-time project manager
• Worked with Native-Land.com to organize project development for their website and assist the president in planning future developments
• Projects included applying for grant funding, assisting with the development and planning of technical GIS projects
• Coordinated volunteer researchers who donated their time to help with GIS mapping project

• Assisted Corporate Planning in the development of new Indigenous cultural safety curriculum.
• Duties included: assisting in the implementation and development of the Draft Principles, identifying training gaps, developing new curriculum
• Developed 3 new courses
• Developed diversity and cultural safety materials
• Delivered cultural safety training and presentations
• Co-managed the guiding of the Indigenous Advisory Circle.

• Was contracted full-time by he McCreary Centre Society contracted me as a researcher to review and assist with compiling reports on Indigenous youth in BC based off of their 2018 Adolescent health survey
• Worked in SPSS to put together large datasets (N=34,00) while being supervised by an Indigenous steering committee