Research Assistants At A Top University: Beyond Just Funding Your Studies

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Research assistants (RAs) during your PhD is a way to get graduate stipends during your PhD, and is generally a way that the university pays you to do research. The amount you get paid is normally not that much - it just covers your costs of living and possibly tuition.
However, I was really curious with what a RA does when I started my PhD. Normally, RAs will perform various research tasks for the principal investigator.
What are the research assistant duties? Here is a list of these duties:
1. Write reviews of papers.
2. Collect data or clean data.
3. Analyze data for a paper.
4. Perform interviews.
5. Write the bull-work part of a paper.
What is the job description of a graduate research assistant?
Generally, what you should be doing is research, and it should be getting you to 75% of where you should be as an independent thinker.
What should you not be doing as a research assistant?
1. Laundry or personal tasks for the PI.
2. Things that don’t take advantage of your capabilities.
3. Things that are outside of your scope or responsibility.
4. Feeling like you are being taken advantage of.
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I took psych stats... but I feel like I already forgot a lot... but I know I'm "familiar" with it... I think this is a big issue - just "taking" something and getting an A in it doesn't mean a student is competent at it

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Thank you. That really helped.

[@Hippieheyhey]

Can I res assistant expect to be put on a paper when contributing to research? What is the norm? Or are they excluded..?

[@stephenraj9502]

Hello sir,
Can you explain the scope of doing a PhD in sociology?

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[@On-su7el]

I have a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, can i apply for a job as a Research Assistant❓
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I am still lost ,please help me

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