Sam Cacace

Permanent academic staff in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences responsible for curriculum building, exam marking, MSC and postgraduate student supervision, knowledge exchange activities, grant seeking and funding, and academic citizenship and leadership. Conducted BSc programme mapping for British Psychological Society reaccreditation activities. Serving as LGBTQIA+ Staff Network Co-Chair.

Tenure-track faculty in Epidemiology & Community Health responsible for curriculum building for the Health Systems Management, Health Services Research PhD, and Master’s in Public Health tracks including undergraduate and graduate curriculum, mentorship for graduate and undergraduate students in research methods and analytics, service responsibilities in unit and college-level committees, and grant-seeking and funding. Principal investigator in projects related to military and veteran health and wellness, stigma, suicide risk, and psychometric evaluation of various health and mental-health measures. Core faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Violence Prevention Center, established August 1, 2023.

Principal investigator, lead evaluator, project manager, and statistical analyst for the Center for Family and Community Engagement working with staff coordinating research projects related to military and veteran health and wellness, child protective services evaluation implementation, and other projects as needed. Responsibilities include seeking grant and other extramural research contract funding, managing research projects from inception to completion, writing internal and external reports, preparing and publishing academic manuscripts, advanced data analytics, data management, working with collaborators both internally and externally, generating scholarly and community-facing presentations, mentoring postdoctoral research scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

Statistical analyst, project manager, mentor, and evaluation specialist for the Center for Family and Community Engagement working with staff on projects related to student veterans, prisoner recidivism and substance use prevention, child protective services team evaluations, and other projects as needed.