Volunteering at the Talwar Child Development Lab gives RAs the unique opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience and be at the forefront of exciting research. As a volunteer, you will be involved in various tasks, including participant recruitment, participant testing using various measures, data entry, and more! Join our team to contribute to novel studies, develop and enhance your research skills, and be part of a diverse team dedicated to better understanding children’s development.
Please send us an email (talwarresearch@gmail.com) stating that you are interested. Please include your unofficial transcript along with the volunteer application, which can be found below. We will reach out to you if we have any openings!
Talwar Research Lab Volunteer Application
Graduate Studies
Dr. Victoria Talwar is looking for highly motivated and hard-working graduate students. Graduate students in the lab have considerable freedom in formulating their research projects. Initially, students are encouraged to be active team members and gain experience with different research projects. Then, in collaboration and consultation with Dr. Talwar develop a research program to pursue.
A Team Approach
Our research lab takes a team approach, with senior researchers mentoring junior researchers. We work as a team, and all students are expected to contribute significantly to the lab by learning the various study procedures that are currently being used in the lab, running studies in addition to their thesis research, contributing to lab meetings, presenting research at conferences and publishing research findings under the direction of Dr. Talwar.
Program Information
Please visit the Graduate program page for more information about Graduate Studies in Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. Please pay close attention to the academic requirements needed for each program. Preference is given to students who have some prior research experience working in a child lab and who have the potential to secure research funding through external graduate scholarships. If you are interested in applying, please contact Dr. Talwar for a visit as early as possible in the academic year because she accepts only a limited number of graduate students per year.
Undergraduates
Dr. Talwar welcomes all student inquiries concerning undergraduate research supervision ( e.g., Honours theses, independent research projects for credit). Please email to inquire about potential supervision and include the following: a current CV, your C. G. P. A., the languages in which you are fluent, and your research interests. Dr. Talwar usually supervises 2-3 students per year.