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Kathryn Abrams - Professor, Law
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will have two facets: 1) Some students will work with the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (in collaboration with Arneta Rogers, the executive director, and me). CRRJ brings together organizers, advocates, scholars, and students; it focuses primarily on reproductive justice issues, which involve group based inequalities in...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutes, and centers from Berkeley and around the world to foster collaborative research on APEC and other trade-related issues. We are looking for students interested in working on the US-China superpower competition, particularly...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In a world of rising inequality and globalization, international coordination on tax policy has increased in importance. In this project, I investigate how international tax coordination was formed between states and how changes to the global tax rules affect the international investment environment. I argue that the global minimum tax...
Social SciencesVinod Aggarwal - Professor, Political Science
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of an American-led era characterized by multilateralism and expanding international trade. This period witnessed a rapid shift toward greater openness, globalization, and opportunities for mutual economic gain. However, in recent years, there has been a notable rise in legislation and...
Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Description: Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). Our first target market is the HazMat and CBRNE (Chemical, biological...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Please write Project 2: Social Psychology and Business Lab at the top of your application if you are interested in applying to our lab. We are seeking to recruit 2-3 new Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
In the wake of the events of Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, the descriptive and substantive under-representation of minorities in local governments has become an issue of pressing concern. Reformers and litigators have focused almost exclusively on the notion that minority representation is a simple matter of creating minority-majority...
Social SciencesFolklore Archivist - Archivist, Folklore Program
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Folklore Archive is seeking a detail-oriented student to help digitize archival materials. This role provides a hands-on opportunity to engage with archival processes and contribute to the preservation and dissemination of rich cultural materials from the Berkeley Folklore Archive. No prior experience in archival work or digitization...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesColette (Coco) Auerswald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
BACKGROUND Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) is a research team based in i4Y (Innovations for Youth), a Berkeley School of Public Health research center. YAAH is made up of people with lived experience of homelessness or that have a deep commitment to ending youth homelessness. This includes youth community...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this set of research projects is to understand how people experience the psychological phenomenon of authenticity. These research questions include - what personality traits are associated with seeming the most authentic? How does the use of rationales or explanations impact perceptions of authenticity? What role does self-awareness...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this research project is to examine law enforcement and civilian interactions from a micro-psychological perspective. In particular, I am interested in the cultural factors that lead to better (or worse) outcomes. I am utilize a variety of open-source and large archival datasets, as well as...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: In 2016, voters in the state of California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2016 which now requires an ethnic studies curriculum for grades 7-12. In a state where the Latinx student population is 3,284,788 or 56.1% of all students in the state, the new ethnic studies requirement invites a deeper...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: Mam is one of the Mayan languages whose ancestral community spans southern Mexico and western Guatemala. According to the Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VII de Vivienda (2018), there are 842, 252 Mam speakers living in Guatemala, with the largest communities in Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango. This project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesSara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesGasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project looks at language in deep neural networks, LLMs, animals (whales, elephants, spiders), and humans. We model spoken language from raw audio using deep generative neural networks (GANs). We use audio, neural, and behavioral data in spoken language to better understand and interpret deep learning models...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: INFORMATION SESSION AUG 28 *** UPDATE 8/21/25: I will host a PSC information session on 8/28 at 6 pm on campus, in person. There's a challenge: I can't reserve a classroom (Berkeley rules for the first weeks of term). So I can't tell you the location yet. Also, the...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
There are two related projects under this title. For Project #1 (currently full for new apprentices): The U.S. is the only country in the world that has not signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The position of children in this country is therefore ambiguous and contested...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Transgender children are disproportionately overrepresented in the United States child welfare system and experience many unique challenges during their child welfare experiences. The state of California began collecting data on transgender children in the child welfare system in 2019, but before this data can be analyzed, social workers' use of...
Social SciencesAnne Bloom - Executive Director, Law
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI) is a think tank that explores, through interdisciplinary, academically-based and independent research, how the civil justice system can be made more available to everyone seeking relief. The CJRI is chaired by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and directed by Anne Bloom, an attorney...
Social SciencesSabrina Boyce - Professor, Public Health
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
p><strong>Faculty Mentor:</strong> Dr. Sabrina Boyce<br> <strong>Day-to-Day Supervision:</strong> Ricardo Vera Monroy, M.S. (Data Analyst) or Emma Jackson, M.P.H. (Program Manager)</p> <h3>Project Description</h3> <p>Sexual and dating violence (SV/DV) and child sexual abuse (CSA) have far-reaching health and social...
Social SciencesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Non-invasive techniques are increasingly valuable for ecologists to be able to collect data on the distribution, population sizes, behavior, and diet of wildlife species. The California Wolf Project led by Arthur Middleton and Justin Brashares at UC-Berkeley is teaming up with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesCharles Briggs - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project Title: Documenting Latinx Contributions to Health Care Access and Services “That's what you call solidarity. Everybody pitching in, everybody doing their part. We each one, teach one, each one, reach one!” - Yolanda Chacon- Serna (labor organizer and health advocate) “Health is politics by other means.” Alondra Nelson, author of...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTolani Britton - Professor, Education
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Given the limited work opportunities available to persons who have been incarcerated, a college degree could serve as one means to improve both educational and job market outcomes. A number of states have expanded access to college classes for incarcerated persons. In 2014, California passed SB 1391, a law that...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
URAP team focuses on the Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Policy Index (SSPI), which pulls together data for over 50 policies across 66 countries to evaluate how well national policies support people and the planet. The SSPI This year the SSPI team will analyze how policies vary across regions and across countries...
Social SciencesClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, which is currently a bill being considered by the California legislature. Students will learn about the bill, and add to the economic analysis of the bill that earlier URAP teams did. Here is a report on the Economic Analysis of...
Social SciencesTamma Carleton - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for highly motivated students interested in conducting research and analyses on a project investigating the impacts of climate change on human migration at global scale. This research initiative aims to leverage large historical datasets to empirically quantify how human migration responds to climate change, both within and...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Computational cognitive models are mathematical tools that help us understand the underlying processes of human cognition. Researchers use these models to test different hypotheses about how the mind works. Traditionally, selecting the best model to explain human behavior relies on standard statistical techniques like maximum likelihood estimation. However, these methods...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMeg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves developing a historical account of the women's sports at Cal in the years prior to the passage of Title-IX ( 1979) given that there were quite a few active teams and women student-athletes...
Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
How can we write a history of Latine feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? Knowing more about this can give us a better sense of two things: how have Latine communities expressed...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesClayton Critcher - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In my lab, we work on a variety of topics at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision making, and consumer behavior. Almost all questions are addressed with the use of behavioral experiments. At present, we are answering questions like the following: *When do consumers defer to product-review...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Sean Darling-Hammond is an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and the PI for the THESIS lab which stands for Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools Dr. Darling-Hammond, and the THESIS team, conduct research to ascertain how k-12 school practices...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Project Overview This research bridges machine learning with behavioral science, finance, and law to study how algorithms can model human interaction and predict institutional outcomes. Illustrative Studies Team Performance: Train ML models on recordings of group collaboration to identify behavioral patterns predictive of team success. Startup Success: Use profiles of...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project focuses on designing and launching behavioral experiments to understand decision-making and social behavior in various contexts, including social media, taxes, and online dating. By setting up controlled field and lab studies, the research team aims to capture real-world behavioral data that can provide insights into how...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesStefano DellaVigna - Professor, Economics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes the students to 2-3 ongoing projects that the professor (Stefano) is working on. The idea of this URAP group is to provide a sampling of research at the frontier in applied behavioral economics and in other areas of applied microeconomics that Stefano works on. As such...
Social SciencesWilliam Dow, Public Health
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Mexico’s public healthcare system has faced underfunding, leading to saturation of primary services and reducing the quality and accessibility for the population. Moreover, there is still a large population that remains uninsured. As a response, people have sought private services to cover their demands. In the last 20 years, Pharmacy...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Fall 2025 Research Assistant Interest". Special instructions for this project: Please upload a pdf of your resume to a google form for which you will receive the...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Fall 2025 Research Assistant Interest". Special instructions for this project: Please upload a pdf of your resume to a google form for which you will receive the...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesRobert Edelstein - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
URAP participants are expected to work between 9 and 12 hours per week (pursuant to the mutually agreed upon contract between the student and Professor Edelstein). Usually, the URAP team will meet with Professor Edelstein on an as needed basis to discuss assignments, provide findings as well as interact about...
Social SciencesOfer Eldar - Professor, Law
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
I am seeking a Research Assistant to support a law and finance project under my supervision at Berkeley Law. The work will involve scraping and analyzing corporate filings from the SEC website. The position requires strong proficiency in Python, including web scraping and data processing, and experience with large language...
Social SciencesJan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To apply, please fill out this Google form: https://forms.gle/hcSRC3KKoLkLJyWv5 We address questions about the evolution and development of socio-cognitive skills by comparing humans to other animals (mostly chimpanzees, our closest living relatives) and by studying how children develop. How do children reason? How strongly is reasoning embedded...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesEllen Evers - Professor, Marketing
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab's research combines cognitive/social psychology, behavioral economics, and judgment and decision making research. Most of our research involves carrying out online or in-person experiments designed to test a hypothesis about human decision-making. Accepted students will work on a variety of projects within this area. Attendance at...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an opportunity to work on technical projects involving ML/AI. The projects include: (i) working with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance by structuring and analyze the large textual data; (ii) building custom large...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research and policy work with web development and graphic design. The project involves maintaining and improving policy-related web resources such as Econ4UA.org, as well as designing and running experimental RCTs and surveys (sometimes involving new websites, sometimes executing simple Qualtrics surveys). Finally, the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US and abroad; Measuring...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesDennis Feehan - Professor, Demography
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Big historical datasets have set off an exciting wave of discoveries throughout the social sciences. These datasets have hundreds of millions of rows with rich information about historical populations, such as the complete set of responses to the 1940 US census and the record of all Social Security enrollments. They...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Over 250 million children under five years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been estimated to be at risk of poor development, accounting for 43% of young children living in those countries (Lu et al., 2016). There are many reasons that children are at risk for poor development...
Social Sciences Biological & Health Sciences