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:
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Your name and departmental affiliation
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Details about your project: A title and a short (~2 paragraph) description of the overall project's goals and activities
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Describe the relevance or alignment of the project with the LCC research themes
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Information about the product that will result (e.g., a publication, a grant proposal, a conference presentation) and when that product will be produced
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A statement about current external funding support for the project
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A description of the specific activities the research assistant would do and (if not obvious) how they fit into the overall project
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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 2022 short-term RA is trainee Emily Kurtz.
Emily's Skills and Experiences:
Skills:
R, Stata, LaTeX, Microsoft Office
I'm most familiar with R (ideally) or Stata. I worked somewhat frequently with SQL in my old job, which I left in 2017, but it may come back to me. I've also worked with GIS, Python, Mathematica, MATLAB, SPSS, and probably more, but this would be me really going a decade back in my memory to pull it out. I'm happy to do so, but it would be less efficient with my and the project's time.
Experience:
Statistics broadly (regression, MLE, design of experiments, etc.), machine learning, data cleaning, data visualization
General experience working with people from disciplines far different from my own through 2 semester doing stat consulting with IRSA and working with people in medicine, horticulture, Spanish, education, etc.
See Emily's CV for more skills and experiences.