research assistant

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

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