research assistant
Academic support staff
A research assistant helps conduct academic, scientific, or professional research under someone else's direction.
The role typically involves gathering data, reviewing literature, running experiments, or performing administrative tasks that support a larger project.
In universities, research assistants are often graduate students working with faculty: She worked as a research assistant in the psychology lab.
- postgraduateScholar past undergraduate level
- gradInformal term for alumnus
- professorSenior university teacher
- tenure trackProbationary academic employment path
- data analysisSystematic information interpretation
experimentation · field work · dissertation · mentor · grant writing · fellow · supervisor · literature review · transcription · administrative tasks · bibliography · data entry · scholar · hypothesis testing · citation · data collection · instructor · office hours
- lab assistantsgrad student, technician, lab tech, intern, postdoc
- Lab Scientistsbiochemist, microbiologist, molecular biologist, immunologist, virologist
- student aidfinancial aid, scholarship, grant, loans, Pell Grant
- studentsstudent, freshman, university students, sophomore, pupil
- researchstudy, archive, peer review, investigating, citation
- office jobsmanager, office clerk, analyst, receptionist, clerk
research assistantresearch director
Head of scholarly inquiry
senior scientist · department chair · tenured professor · lab director · project lead
research, assistant, researcher, researched, researching, researchers, researches, researchable