PSA Assistance Task Menu

Examples of tasks we can assist on, depending on the Personnel role the motivated person mentioned.

Assistance in the submission of grants (e.g., writing of templates, contacting the different funding sources).
Assistance in the launch of crowdfunding campaigns (e.g., promoting the project through social media).
Assistance in the accounting process (e.g., establishing a budget, overseeing it).

Assistance in the management of the “materials” OSF repository (e.g., making sure that the different material documents are up to date, uploading the material documents on OSF)
Assistance in the training of collection teams on how to recruit and collect (special) participants (e.g., preparing tutorial documents such as videos or plain text)
Assistance in the training of collection teams on how to carry out study procedure (e.g., preparing tutorial documents such as videos or plain text)
Assistance in the teaching of some technical knowledge about the study procedure to the collection teams (e.g., preparing tutorial documents such as videos or plain text)
Assistance in the training of the collection teams to carry out data processing/cleaning/analysis (e.g., preparing tutorial documents such as videos or plain text)
Assistance in the development of the necessary software/materials (e.g., writing of scripts)

Assistance in the management of the “data” OSF repository (e.g., making sure that the different data files are correctly annotated uploading the data files on OSF)
Assistance in the data storing process (e.g., making sure that the different data are stored in a way that would allow the different analyzes to be performed)
Assistance in the data annotation process (e.g., making sure that anyone can read and understand the data files)
Assistance in the drawing of a data release plan (e.g., defining a data-release roadmap)

Monitoring/updating IRB docs to OSF and checking off in tracking sheet
Assistance in the IRB-approval-seeking process (e.g., writing of templates, contacting the different IRB instances, assisting the different collection teams in retrieving approval)
Assistance in the IRB-approval-checking process (e.g., monitoring the IRB status of the different collection teams)
Assistance in the training of collection teams on how to retrieve consent and debrief participations (e.g., preparing tutorial documents such as videos or plain text)

Assistance with implementation of the study.
Assistance with fixing formatting issues in the translated document in order to be able to implement the study on Formr.
Determining the word count of the study that needs to be translated.
Assistance with preparing the translation process for the different materials (e.g., defining a list of all language study needs to be translated to, recruitment of translation teams, preparing translation templates, preparing a document to track the progress of each language)
Assistance with overseeing the different translation teams (e.g., training the different translation teams to the back-translation process, coordinating and checking the work of the translation teams)

Collaborating on study instructions. Allowing the study lead team to have an unfamiliar eye look over it and make sure it makes sense.
Assistance with recruiting data collection teams (e.g., getting in touch with different PIs of our network, promoting the project on social media)
Assistance with reviewing Lab procedural videos.
Assistance with testing project links to make sure they are running smoothly.
Assistance with making sure the OSF has all that a lab will need to run participants properly.

Assistance with providing updates of the project (e.g., answering collaborators questions, giving monthly updates for the newsletter, sharing updates on social media)

Assistance with retrieving the authors’ affiliation.
Assistance with creating an author list.
Assistance with writing Collaboration agreements (e.g., defining the criteria that will make you part of the author list).