Student Research Worker

Position Summary

Position Title FA 2026 MPA Student Research Worker Posting Number Division Department Poli.Sci.& Legal Studies Department Col.Humanities,Ed.&SocScience Location Erie, Pa Position Summary

Career Readiness Learning Objectives:Communication: The student worker will conduct interviews as part of the research and clearly exchange information with interview subjects.

Critical Thinking: The student worker will identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information. The student worker will collect and analyze data and present it to the supervisor.

Research Assistants are Academic Student Employees (ASEs) hired by faculty to assist in carrying out a particular research agenda. This position was created by a Faculty Research Award fund.
Key Responsibilities:

While a research assistant is expected to contribute in many ways to the research project, typical responsibilities include the following:

• Conduct literature reviews
• Writing research proposal
• Prepare interview questions
• Recruit interview subjects
• Collect and analyze data
• Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary
• Developing transcripts of recorded interview
• Summarize interviews
• Manage and respond to project-related email
• Attend project meetings
• Prepare progress reports for the PI (Principal Investigator)
• Prepare other articles, reports, and presentations

Required Qualifications

Minimum qualifications/requirements

• Academic and/or work experience related to the field of research, as defined by the supervisor/lead researcher
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Graduate Student enrolled in Gannon University
• Satisfactory academic progress, as defined by the supervisor

Preferred Qualifications

• MPA student
• Completed or enrolled in GMPA 799, or any other research methodology course
• Excellent writing skills
• Highly motivated to learn and improve research skills
• Highly motivated to have publication in an academic journal

Physical Demands

NA

Posting Detail Information

Number of Vacancies 2 Job Posting Open Date 09/01/2026 Job Posting Close Date 09/15/2026 Special Instructions to Applicants

This position prefer to MPA graduate student. But students from other major will be considered as well