research assistant

noun

A person who assists a researcher, often on a contractual basis, with research in a commercial, academic, or private setting.

“I am a research assistant for a cryoscience consortium and my chief duty is to conduct reviews of current scholarship on Antarctic ice movement.”

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Meanings

nounresearch assistant (plural research assistants)

plural research assistants

  1. A person who assists a researcher, often on a contractual basis, with research in a commercial, academic, or private setting.

    I am a research assistant for a cryoscience consortium and my chief duty is to conduct reviews of current scholarship on Antarctic ice movement.

    1 more example

    During this period the research assistant made a detailed examination of all course material, and then applied the following concept analysis procedures to the course content through a series of interviews with the professor.

    1983, Janet G. Donald, “Knowledge Structures: Methods for Exploring Course Content”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 54, number 1, →DOI, page 32

Translations

Swedish forskarassistent
  • forskarassistentindividual who assists a researcher
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