Job Description
Job Summary
- A Research Assistant or Research Associate is responsible for gathering accurate, credible information on a subject and summarizing their findings to support senior research staff in scientific and academic fields.
- Their duties include browsing archives for information, completing literature reviews and conducting research interviews
Duties and Responsibilities
- Research Assistants perform a variety of duties to help with the publication of work.
- While the overall goal is to collect and interpret data, a Research Assistant’s work can be broken down into several small duties.
- A few things that they are responsible for include:
- Maintaining quality controls standards to preserve the integrity of data and findings
- Scheduling and conducting interviews
- Selecting a place to conduct interviews and getting permission from all participants
- Analyzing data using various statistical methods
- Writing reports to summarize data and the implications of the results
- Researching information.