Need Volunteers - Univ of Michigan Research Study on Female Engineers

In an effort to understand gender-based discrimination experienced by women engineers and its impact on their health, we are conducting a research study with women engineers at the Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Your input can help us understand the experiences of women engineers. This will help us develop intervention protocol to build resilience among women engineers so they can thrive under challenging circumstances. More details of the study are provided in the informed consent sheet attached with this email. (Note: please email the professor for the consent form...unable to post the document on the blog)

We invite you to participate in our study. The link to the online survey is provided at the end of this email. The online survey takes about 30 minutes in total to complete. You can also save and exit the survey at any point of time and get back to it later in order to complete. To get back to the survey after a break please go to the link stored in the browsing history on your computer and click on the link to the survey. You would be able to continue from where you stopped.

We would appreciate your response within one week of receiving this invitation.

We value your participation and your input is very important to us. The information provided by you will be kept strictly confidential and will be used strictly for research purposes.

Participants in this research can choose to be entered in a raffle where one in every 10 participants would get a chance of winning a gift card worth $20. We appreciate that this is a very small compensation for your value time and inputs. This is just a small token of appreciation for your interest in participating in this research.

Please feel free to call me or email me in case you have any questions or concerns about our study.

If you are a woman engineer working in the USA you are welcome to take this survey.

Your Anonymous Survey Link (updated link): http://umichpsych.qualtrics.com/SE/SID=SV_8HX2m78YYZrcSUd

Sincerely,

Dr.Annalakshmi (Anna) Narayanan, Ph.D., JDS (ISI, Kolkata),
Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Phone: (734) 730 - 0753
Email: annaraya@umich.edu