Research Assistant, Design-based Professional Learning on AI in Education (PSAC-RC) - Education *Work-Study Program*

### **NOTE:** **Students must be approved for the 2026-27 Work-Study program in order to be hired for this position. The Work-Study Student Application form is available online here: Work Study Program | Awards | The University of Winnipeg: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/awards/work-study-program.html** **Please include confirmation of your approval to participate in the Work-Study Program with your application.** **Work-Study Project Title:** Design-based Professional Learning on AI in Education **Competition Number:** WS18.26 **Date Posted:** November 10, 2026 **Department:** Education **Researcher:** Dr. Michael Holden **Position Vacancies:** 1 **Salary:** $17.22 - $20.10 per hour plus 6% vacation pay Research Assistants are normally students, in a University of Winnipeg undergraduate program, employed to assist with tasks related to research. Work is performed within defined guidelines and under supervision of a more senior researcher or faculty member. **Position Overview:** Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is transforming the educational landscape. Teachers, students, parents, and researchers are simultaneously excited at genAI’s potential to transform teaching and learning, and worried about the pedagogical, ethical, and societal implications of tools that can generate text, images, and videos at the click of a button (Corbin et al., 2025; DeLuca et al., 2025; Perkins et al., 2024). Using a design-based professional learning model (Friesen & Brown, 2022; McKenney & Reeves, 2019; Timperley, 2015), teachers and teacher leaders in (1) the Winnipeg School Division and (2) Seven Oaks School Division will be invited to participate in a professional learning community (Owen, 2014) to examine the ethics, pedagogy, and practice of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in teaching, learning, and assessment. The Research Assistant will support this research project by attending and supporting up to 12 professional learning sessions and transcribing interviews with participating teachers. The Research Assistant will complete and compile researcher field notes for each session; collate and organize documents; and transcribe interview recordings, review those transcripts for accuracy and clarity, and de-identify the transcripts for researcher/participant review. **Duties:** * Complete TCPS 2 2022 CORE certificate before accessing study data. TCPS 2 2022 orients researchers (and research assistants) to the ethical requirements for studies involving human participants. * Attend and support up to 12 professional learning sessions between November 2026 and March 2027. At each session complete researcher field notes and compile those field notes for analysis. * Access and listen to audio recordings from the data corpus, transcribe those recordings, review transcripts for accuracy and clarity, and de-identify the transcripts for researcher/participant review. * Meet regularly with the Principal Investigator (Michael Holden) durin