Contributing Faculty - Dissertation Committee Methodologist

Summary

Join Walden University's Richard W. Riley College of Education and Human Sciences as a part-time faculty methodologist for Ed.D. and Ph.D. dissertation committees. You will mentor doctoral students in their research, serving as a committee chair or member. Responsibilities include providing feedback on research design, methodology, data analysis, and presentation. Additional responsibilities may include serving as a University Research Reviewer (URR), ensuring research integrity and quality. This role requires a doctoral degree in education or a related field, a strong research methodology background, and experience with doctoral dissertation committees. The position offers competitive compensation based on factors like experience and course type.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in the field of Education, or related field from an accredited university
• Strong research methodology background in quantitative, qualitative and/or mixed methods
• A significant record of intellectual and professional contributions to the field of Education, or related field, including peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations
• Experience serving on doctoral dissertation committees is required
• Excellent leadership, communication, team, and human relation skills

Responsibilities

• Serve as methodologist on doctoral committees in either the position of chair or second member
• Manage dissertation quality through service as a university research reviewer (if additionally selected to serve as URR)
• Complete required faculty trainings
• Provides feedback to student on the following: Proposed research design including appropriateness for addressing the problem statement and research questions or for testing stated hypotheses
• Selection of specific methodology
• Selection of a sample of appropriate characteristics and size
• Oversee implementation of the selected methodology, assuring compliance with the following: Program/professional norms
• Generally accepted ethical and moral principles regarding human subjects
• Provides constructive feedback about the following: Data collection and analysis
• Presentation of the data and the conclusions drawn from the analyses
• Insuring the maintenance of a high level of integrity in the research students’ produce
• Facilitating a level of consistency in the application of university research standards
• Providing timely and substantive feedback that is within the defined scope of the URR member role: The defined scope includes feedback related to theoretical, methodological, analytical, and organization content. URR members use the capstone rubric as their means for providing feedback on submissions
• Determining if the proposal or research study is ready for advancement to the next milestone in the process. URR member approval, expressed through scores and comments entered in the appropriate capstone rubric, will be a prerequisite for conducting oral defenses of the proposal and completed capstone, as well as for submitting the abstract to the CAO for final approval

Preferred Qualifications

• Three to five years of independent research project mentoring is preferred
• Experience with distance learning preferred
• Commitment to advocating for the learning and development needs of students earning their degrees in a distance learning environment; supervising student research preferred at the graduate level; commitment to the promotion of research that contributes to Walden's mission of contributing to positive social change; commitment to advocating for the learning and development needs of students earning their degrees in a distance learning environment

Benefits

• Graduate Course Instruction: $1,560 - $4,080 per Quarter or Semester, depending on type of course taught and length of course
• Undergraduate Course Instruction: $700 - $2,200 per quarter, depending on type of course taught and length of course
• Walden also offers other opportunities for its contributing faculty members, such as dissertation/doctoral study committee chair positions, research reviewing, and dissertation and doctoral study mentoring