The ILR Undergraduate Research Fellows Program provides ILR undergraduates with the opportunity to work with a professor during academic year 2023-2024. This program was developed in response to numerous requests we have received from undergraduates for research opportunities and in the hope that it will facilitate one-on-one student/faculty interactions. Students participating in this program will receive an hourly pay of $16.50 per hour for up to 10 hours a week. Awards will be made on a one semester basis with renewal possible for the second semester.  Students may not earn credit for the research project during the semester or year they are being paid as a research assistant.

African Futures Project

This is a project support position for the African Futures Project, a multi-year longitudinal interview project that assesses the educational, labor, and migration outcomes of a cohort of high school students in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The Undergraduate Research Fellow will be responsible for assisting on coding and analyzing participant data (survey responses and interview transcripts) and will report directly to the Principal Investigator, Tristan Ivory. In addition, the Research Fellow will maintain regular contact with other project associates via email and group meetings. Regular job responsibilities will include: imputing and archiving interview data on a secure cloud storage service, attending monthly research meetings with the project team, maintaining a record of work tasks and progress made on long-term projects, providing quarterly progress summaries on the project, and assisting with data analysis. Occasional domestic and international travel may be required (covered by project). – with Professor Tristan Ivory.

To apply for this Fall 2023 research opportunity, please click Apply below.