research assistant

English

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• RA
• research assistantship
• RAship

Translations

individual who assists a researcher

• Swedish: forskarassistent c