PACS Lab Structure
Learn about the PACS Lab structure, including orientation, ongoing evaluation, student roles and assignments, manuscript and grant support, and authorship guidelines.
Our lab can include Doctoral, Master’s, and undergraduate students. We utilize Google Drive to store non-confidential lab documents. We also have secure server space through SDSU, accessible only on campus.
We hold required lab meetings in Lamden Hall, Room 428 (LH-428) or through Zoom video conferencing. All students working in the lab must attend lab meetings.
Lab Member Orientation and Ongoing Evaluation
All Students
- SDSU Human Subjects Research Training (save completion certificate and provide copy to Dr. H-S)
- PACS Lab Questions (Word doc)
- PACS Lab SMART Goals Sheet (Word doc)
PhD/MS Students
- PACS Lab Graduate Student Overall Goals Sheet (Word doc) (MS and PhD students only)
- Individual Development Plan (MS and PhD students only)
Undergraduate Students
- Intern Evaluation Form (Word doc) (completed by Dr. H-S every 3-6 months)
- Evaluation of Dr. H-S (Word doc) (completed by 499 students only at end of semester)
Lab Structure
Graduate Lab Assistants (PhD/MS student)
- Contributes to PACS Lab tasks (see below)
- Oversees undergraduate interns
- Monitors Google Drive
- Orders materials
- Independent work on thesis or project
Undergraduate Lab Interns (BS/BA students)
- Can be assigned to support PACS Lab activities and Graduate Lab Assistants
Lab Tasks (not all tasks applicable to all projects):
Research Project Support:
- Observational and qualitative coding
- Participant recruitment
- Material development and refinement
- Intervention implementation support
- Data collection and entry
- Administrative tasks
Manuscript & Grant Support:
- References management
- Article extraction
- Literature searches
- Literature reviews
- Creating tables and figures
- *Manuscript/grant writing
Master’s Thesis Development:
- Research question identification
- Data collection (if applicable)
- Data analysis
- Thesis preparation
- Manuscript preparation
Master's Project Development:
- Project goal identification
- Project development
- Project implementation
- Project write-up
*Authorship Guidelines:
- First author typically the individual primarily responsible for the project
- Upfront promises about authorship prohibited. First author to make authorship decisions after evaluating individual contributions (but during manuscript writing process, not after).
- Ask: Could this project have been done without this person’s conceptual/ technical contribution?