LCC members can apply to use the services of a 20-hour per week graduate research assistant for a short period of time (typically up to 4 weeks). Priority is given to projects that (a) have a life course or population studies focus, broadly construed; (b) can quickly result in a publication and/or grant proposal; (c) can clearly benefit from short-term research assistance; and (d) do not already have external funding. Preference will be given to junior faculty. This is a free service.
To apply for this service, please complete this form and include the following information:
- Your name and departmental affiliation
- Details about your project: A title and a short (~2 paragraph) description of the overall project's goals and activities
- Describe the relevance or alignment of the project with the LCC research themes
- Information about the product that will result (e.g., a publication, a grant proposal, a conference presentation) and when that product will be produced
- A statement about current external funding support for the project
- A description of the specific activities the research assistant would do and (if not obvious) how they fit into the overall project
- The number of weeks the research assistant's services would be needed (at 20 hours per week) and a proposed starting date
Questions? Contact us at [email protected].
Beginning Summer 2024 we will have two short-term RAs: Applied Economics PhD student Mphatso Banda and Humphrey Graduate Student Lillian Norman. In Fall 2024 the short term RA will be Xiaowen Han.
Mphatso's Skills and Experiences: Stata, E-views, R, Python, GAMS, SPSS, Excel, Rats
To learn more about his research skills and experience, please visit his MPC webpage
Lillian Norman's Skills and Experiences: Stata, R, ArcGIS, NVivo, Qualtrics, Excel.
Experiences: Statistics (casual inference, research design, and data visualization), ArcGIS (buffer construction, data joins and relates, visualization), Qualitative Analysis (survey design, coding, transcribing, and thematic analysis)