Undergraduate Research Assistant, LBJ School
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The Undergraduate Research Assistant will contribute to a collaborative project examining how members of parliament have engaged with women’s rights issues over time. The project investigates whether increased female political representation has led to more effective representation of these issues and whether male and female MPs have responded equally. The assistant will code parliamentary speeches and receive training in content coding.
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The URA will be part of a collaborative project between Dr. Michael Wahman (LBJ School), Dr. Nikolaos Frantzeskakis (University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom), and Dr. Valeriya Mechkova (University of Gothenburg, Sweden). The project uses a unique dataset of parliamentary transcripts to establish how members of parliament have changed their engagement on issues related to womens rights over time. Has the increase in female political representation translated to more effective representation of womens issues? If so, have male and female MPs responded equally to the increased presence of female legislators?The RA will work collaboratively (remotely) with a group of RAs from the University of Birmingham in the UK. The URA will mainly work to code the content of a large number of speeches. The URA will receive training in content coding by Nikolaos Frantzeskakis, an expert in machine learning. The hand-coded speeches will be used to train a neural network transformer model. No prerequisites are necessary. A previous paper from the project, using similar data, is available here.
How this job compares
Set against the 681 open Research Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
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- US median$47–60K/yr84 salary ranges
- US median$18–25/hr275 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 133 open Research Assistant jobs in Texas and 681 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Research Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (152 postings).
- Education
- 187 of the 681 open Research Assistant jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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