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Student projects leader: Dan Jenkins, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

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Student projects committee members:

Yuhang Zhu - representing Asia

Katherine Soto - representing South America

Engida Girma Gebiso - representing Africa

Heike Arzapalo - representing Europe

Krithika Prakash - representing North America and Australia/New Zealand areas

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The Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress emphasizes the importance to bring together trainees, graduate students, medical residents or post-docs across the world to work together on topic of global importance. Students are the future!

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Therefore we aim to have students actively involved in the global collaboration, on any theme.

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Student projects are projects run by students. Needless to say, students are also very welcome to participate in other projects as well. Check out the different themes and topics.

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Current student projects can be found below. If you have ideas or suggestions please email Krithika Prakash.

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1. Global Perspectives on Culturally Sensitive Trauma Training
Project leader: Krithika Prakash, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan, US

 

Aims:

Bring together a team of student researchers across the world with the goal of understanding the quality of culturally sensitive trauma training provided to them, and answer the following questions: ...

Read more...

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2. ​Paper in a Day Projects (PIAD)

For early career researchers there is a unique opportunity to collaborate with international colleagues on existing data and to write a manuscript to be submitted for publication ‘in a day’.

Check this page for new PIADs and/or register to recieve the announcements through the newsletter.

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Past PIADs

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• December 2023

PIAD Cape Town - 12 December 2023

At the 1st Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress Conference in Cape Town a Paper-In-A-Day (PIAD) workshop was held on 12 December at Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The idea for Paper-In-A-Day was developed by Eva Alisic and first pioneered at an International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies annual meeting. The initiative brings together junior researchers to work together on a defined project that can be submitted for publication. The full-day in-person workshop, led by Jacqueline Womersley and Muneeb Salie of Stellenbosch University, brought together a diverse group to work on a systematic review on early biological psychosocial mechanisms of posttraumatic stress disorder onset and persistence in youth. The six participants represented three countries (South Africa, Botswana, and Nigeria); different backgrounds (basic scientists and clinicians) and varying levels of research experience (postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, lecturers, and clinicians). The success of the workshop was thanks to the enthusiasm and hard work of the participants, as well as Eva Alisic, who joined the in-person meeting to share insight into the process and exciting new approaches to collaborative work and brainstorming. The GCTS PIAD laid the groundwork for collaboration and teamwork among an upcoming generation of African researchers. Follow-up work and meetings in 2024 are already in full swing with the review starting to take shape!

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• November 2023

Gender Differences in DSM-5 PTSD Symptom Clusters: A Network Analysis

Project leaders: Anke Witteveen & Mirjam van Zuiden 

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A successful Paper in a Day project was held at ISTSS in Los Angeles on November 1st 2023 and embodied global collaboration and FAIR data. Early career researchers from around the world collaborated to conduct network analyses using data made available by one of the PIAD leaders’ research project on early prevention of PTSD after trauma. The group included 7 participants from Singapore, Norway, Ghana, and the United States and two supervisors from the Netherlands. 

 

Data from the 2-ASAP study in the Netherlands, provided the starting point for interesting new work to examine gender impact of trauma exposure search paper on differences in early post-trauma PTSD symptom network structures between women and men. 

Project: Gender Differences in DSM-5 PTSD Symptom Clusters: A Network Analysis

More details here.

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• November 2022

An Exploration of Trauma-Related Symptoms and Symptom Patterns Across the World  

Project leaders:  Hope Christie & Anke de Haan 

Using openly available data from the Global Collaboration’s Global Psychotrauma Screen project. 

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A Qualitative Analysis of the role of PTSD and PTG in Family Experiences of having a relative in Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Project leaders: Anna Denejkina and Yaara Sadeh 

Using accessible multi-study data from the Child Trauma Data Archives project (part of the FAIR Data theme).

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Status

Two successful Paper in a Day projects embodied global collaboration and FAIR data in action at ISTSS in Atlanta. Early career researchers and trainees from around the world collaborated to conduct novel analyses using accessible data resources made available through the Global Collaboration and its projects. The two project groups included 17 participants from 10 countries (Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Korea, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, and United States).

In both projects, easily accessible data resources, from studies conducted in multiple countries, provided the starting point for interesting new work to examine the impact of trauma exposure:

A manuscript from each project has been submitted for publication.

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