Part Time - Student (Undergraduate) - Police Field Training Research Assistant
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~1 min readResearch assistant for 2024-2026 police field training project
The project concerns the study of police field training practices in a northeastern state. The research assistant will be working with quantitative and qualitative data as well as synthesizing relevant literature.
We are looking to hire two undergraduate students as research assistants for the project, funded by the Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Grant by the Office of Research and Outreach. RAs should have experience in conducting research, data analysis, and using Excel, Word, as well as preferably Stata.
The hourly rate is $18/hr. The number of hours is limited to the total amount of the grant funding.
If interested, please submit a personal statement illustrating your experience in research and your current CV, to Dr. Siyu Liu, sul445@psu.edu.
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- Pay per year
- ≈ $37,440 a year
- 53% below the $80,000 median for Research Associate jobs on Jobera (253 salaries).
- Posted
- 5 days ago
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- Posted
- October 21, 2026
- First seen
- October 26, 2026
- Last seen
- October 26, 2026
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