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Ulrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is primarily suitable for outstanding students in Ancient History or Classics (ideally with some interest in law and/or in economics) or students in Economics or Legal Studies with a very strong background in Ancient History, Latin, and ideally Ancient Greek. This coming semester I am particularly keen...
Social SciencesAngela Marino - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A special funded initiative of the Latinx Research Center, the Democracy and Media project seeks students with strong writing and/or digital media skills to assist in developing articles, visual media, and/or podcasts. Successful candidates will join a team of other students to plan, record, edit, and publish research...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRobin Marsh - Senior Researcher, ISSI
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will address the overall question: how can regional, national and local policies, practices and transdisciplinary collaboration facilitate inclusive participation in a rural revitalization process based on just and sustainable agriculture? With the median age of farmers in the mid-to-late 50s and serious issues of rural depopulation...
Social SciencesRobin Marsh - Senior Researcher, ISSI
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are generating quantitative and qualitative data from several research instruments to understand the multiple impacts of women-led organic vegetable gardening in Western Uganda. These instruments include 24 hour recall and food security surveys, general demographics, gardening and welfare questionnaires, and narrative stories. This spring semester we will begin...
Social SciencesWilliam Martinez - Professor , UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The present study is a randomized control trial to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of a school-based group prevention program (Fuerte) in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Public Schools. Fuerte targets newcomer Latinx immigrant youth (five years or less post arrival in the U.S.) who are at risk...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project examines policing in places that have had civil conflict and related crime, as well as peace agreements and interventions, specifically. We are focusing on a review of community-oriented policing in these contexts as well as how the end of conflict changes policing...
Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project examines how and why foreign intervention occurs by domestic invitation, as well as to what effect these invited interventions have on the rule of law. Intervention by invitation is increasingly used by intergovernmental organizations pooling resources to deal with transnational concerns. The treaties that enact these agreements...
Social SciencesAila Matanock - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is one of three pieces of a collaborative project between Professors Arriola, Matanock, and Mattes.) Countries around the world are increasingly confronting violent irregular threats such as insurgencies and terrorism. Yet, many countries have proven unable to effectively deploy their security institutions (including regular militaries, paramilitaries, and police) when...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This uses focuses on designing and implementing a nationally-representative survey to examine the prevalence, knowledge, and attitudes surrounding child trafficking and forced labor in Jamaica. Previous studies have reported that in Jamaica, 1 in 12 children work at least one hour a week and of those working children, 71.3...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines of how official narratives of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War in national social studies textbooks have shifted over time. Since independence, history textbooks in Bangladesh have been sites of contestation, undergoing politically motivated revisions with each new regime that has come into power. With the goal of examining...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Throughout history, women have often been omitted from narratives and histories of war. A Woman’s War, an oral history project that includes narratives of over 120 women across six countries---Bangladesh, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Vietnam, and the United States---seeks to examine the intersection of individual and collective experiences...
Social SciencesCecilia Mo - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on the impact of mental health in post-conflict and forced migration contexts. There are two primary research areas within the larger project: (1) producing a systematic review article on how living through and beyond trauma impact communities affected by conflict and forced migration, and (2) conducting...
Social SciencesDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever scored lower on a test than you expected, lost a competition to a competitor you thought you’d trounce, been certain about a fact only to have Google prove you incorrect? People are frequently overconfident. Understanding overconfidence can help us become more accurate about our self-perceptions. Researchers...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Human judgments are routinely biased. Can artificially intelligent agents correct for this human bias and achieve greater accuracy in their judgment...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The scientific world is changing quickly as scientists improve their research practices and correct errors in the published record. This project seeks to test the replicability of published work that is now suspect. This is a chance to play a role in a project in the vanguard of open science...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever read a research article and wondered if the authors truly tested the research question they purported to test? The focus of this project concerns the evaluation of research methodology. You would work primarily with a senior graduate student in the lab on her research. It&amp...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCalvin Morrill - Professor, Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In 2019, Facebook and Google reported receiving over 58,000 and 20,000 search warrants respectively. These third-party businesses are not themselves the subjects of inquiry, but possess evidence relevant to investigations of crimes such as homicide, fraud, and harassment. This project studies how technology companies process search warrants, subpoenas, and...
Social SciencesAbhishek Nagaraj - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects that the professor (Abhishek) is working on along in his Data Innovation Lab with PhD students and other research assistants in the Berkeley-Haas School of Business. The idea of this URAP group is to provide students...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesKaren Nakamura - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Disability Lab (https://disabilitylab.berkeley.edu/) has been working on several projects involving disability, technology, art, activism, and access in the Bay Area. We welcome students from all fields of the university (arts, engineering, social sciences, communications, CS, design, music, architecture, etc.), and people with personal experience of disability or...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesOlivia Natan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in quantitative marketing and industrial organization, including topics on product variety, pricing, and consumer demand. Examples of ongoing projects include work on optimal platform product variety, product bundling in video game markets, and consumer search and information...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesDenise Neary - Director of Judicial Education, Berkeley Judicial Institute
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Judicial Institute (BJI) aims to establish an effective bridge between the legal academy and the judiciary for the primary purpose of promoting an ethical, resilient and independent judiciary. By creating this much needed synergy between the legal academy and the judiciary, BJI also seeks to address the concern...
Social SciencesLeif Nelson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab group studies human judgment and decision making, and are currently investigating cultural differences and similarities between people in the United States and in China. In this position you will work with Professor Leif Nelson on a variety of projects within the Behavioral Lab (BLab) and for the MORS...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyLeif Nelson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This interdisciplinary project seeks to explore and investigate the intricate realms of judgment and decision-making, blending insights from social psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science. Our central focus is understanding how the framing of a situation or problem can significantly alter human behavior and choices. What You Will Explore...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMoira O'Neill - Professor, Institute for Urban and Regional Development
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
School meal programs play a critical role in addressing childhood hunger, and initiatives to improve healthy eating often target school meal programs for improvement. This research explores how school districts address food access, health, educational, environmental, and social issues simultaneously through comprehensive school meal program reform. This approach to school...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMoira O'Neill - Professor, Institute for Urban and Regional Development
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
California's housing crisis is well known, and scholars attribute this crisis largely to the inadequate supply of housing across multiple income levels. This study explores the relationship between local and state land use regulation and housing supply. We will examine approval processes in selected jurisdictions to understand...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Spanish artist Jusepe Ribera interrogated the media of painting, drawing and etching in the vice-royalty of Naples. This publication project looks at the artist's In Ribera's work and its place in the Spanish Empire. His recourse to classical mythology as well as...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Beato Antonio Baldinucci (Florence 1665 – Lazio 1717), son of the art historian to the Medici court, was a Jesuit missionary in Lazio, known for his penitential missions, involving carrying a cross, flagellation and bonfires of the vanities. During these internal missions, Baldinucci carried with him a copy of a painting...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The French Huguenot ceramicist Bernard Palissy’s is famous for his casting of living specimens (amphibians and reptiles) for his plates. He was also a prolific writer, revealing his research in salt flats and his observation of fossils in the mountains. Palissy’s Discours admirable (1580) is a dialogue between Theory and...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Simone Vouet was an emigré artist in Rome in the 1620s before he returned to France and became a major painter in Paris, most notably serving Anne d'Autriche, the mother of Louis III. This research project concerns the artist's production in Rome, most notably...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesDavid Oppenheimer - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality Anti-Discrimination Law brings together academics, advocates and activists from six continents to address issues of systemic inequality and discrimination. Much of our research, administration and leadership is done by Berkeley students, including URAP students. Our current projects include working groups on Sexual Harassment...
Social SciencesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Youth should be meaningfully included and engaged in conversations about policies that directly affect them. Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is a social justice-focused approach for promoting social change and positive youth development in which youth conduct systematic research and actions to improve their schools and communities (Ozer...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is conducting systematic review of the literature to describe the state of the youth participatory action research (YPAR) literature and synthesizing findings of the youth outcomes reported in these studies. YPAR is an approach that engages young people as researchers to study and address social problems within their...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesManisha Padi - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Biden administration has prioritized a crackdown on "junk fees" which proliferate across industries in modern times. The banking industry has been specifically targeted by federal regulators, resulting in a sea change in bank business models. This project studies bank fees and their effect on consumers using a...
Social SciencesManisha Padi - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project continues prior work investigating how local governments interact with home-based businesses in essential industries such as food production and childcare. Home businesses play a growing role in providing essential goods and services, as well as labor opportunities to workers with restrictions, including women with young children and...
Social SciencesZachary Pardos - Professor, School of Information and Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The AskOski project (https://askoski.berkeley.edu/about) is a research and development effort lead by Professor Pardos to transfer the latest in big data and machine learning research to the domain of course guidance in higher ed. The recommender system is live in-production at Berkeley, with partial deployments at several...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesZachary Pardos - Professor, School of Information and Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Adaptive tutoring systems are designed to provide students in K-12 and intro college courses a personalized homework experience. This means giving the right problem to a student at the right time based given a continuous assessment of their mastery of a skill. At Berkeley, the ALEKS system is used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesRahul Parson - Professor , South and Southeast Asian Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The initiation of a liberalized economy and rise of right-wing nationalist politics has increased the precarity of vulnerable communities, minorities, women, and those seen as outsiders or immigrants. This project uses historical, archival, ethnographic, and literary critical approaches to vernacular cultures in order to make visible the new political...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesAngie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project will involve two different mini-projects: (1) HOMES Survey:(LGBTQ+/SGL) Housing, Health, and Services for Older Adults. HOMES is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project with LGBTQ+ / same-gender-loving older adults. It uses survey data from LGBTQ+ older adults and information from community partners from...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesChristine Philliou - Professor, History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This is a collaborative research and Digital Humanities project I initiated in 2020 and our team includes scholars in Greece, Turkey, and several other countries. We are reading Ottoman Turkish and Greek sources about the population of Greek Orthodox in Istanbul and creating data sets, and then visualizations and interactive...
Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Despite the enormous impact of the Venture Capital (“VC”) industry—it has helped anoint the world’s four most valuable companies—there is effectively no legal backstop that ensures non-dominant groups (e.g., women and Black people) have an equal opportunity to share in its wealth creation and innovation. Furthermore, while...
Social SciencesVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project seeks to uncover the social psychological underpinnings of the debate around inclusion policies and free speech. As college campuses nationwide have instituted policies designed to promote inclusion (e.g., safe spaces, trigger warnings, hate speech codes, and pronoun usage policies), furor and debate have ignited. On the one hand...
Social SciencesVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This study will examine judicial decision making at summary judgment (a particular phase of trial) in race and gender-based employment discrimination cases. RAs will assist with legal research and qualitatively code judicial opinions. RAs will gain experience using LexisNexis and Westlaw legal research databases (which are routinely used in...
Social SciencesVictoria Plaut - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This series of projects examines equity, diversity, and inclusion across various institutional domains (e.g., tech, education, etc.). Some areas of interest include understanding how diversity is perceived by both dominant and non-dominant groups and how this affects belonging, and how people interact with policies that may or may not...
Social SciencesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Despite historical experience and health state capacity, Brazil has struggled to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas past administrations have proactively mobilized resources to combat pandemics, Bolsanaro’s administration has taken a more passive role, claiming that the negative effects of quarantine measures outweigh positive benefits. The lack of a federal...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
What are the main types of concerns that citizens bring to mayors and city councilors in Latin America? What sorts of incentives do public officials have to address these concerns? And how do these dynamics vary between cities of different sizes? In this project, we will investigate local-level politics...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Addressing climate change will require more than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It will require removing carbon from the atmosphere and durably storing it. Natural pathways for carbon removal, e.g. storing carbon in soils, forests, and wetlands, are likely to be the only way to achieve large scale carbon removal in...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Forest restoration is an increasingly relevant topic across the globe, hailed as a key component to solutions for climate change, biodiversity crises, and sustainable development. Despite a growing awareness of the importance of forests and the need for ecosystem restoration, crucial information on forest resilience and natural regeneration is often...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesNdola Prata - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project is focused on improving the lives of Black Birthing people in California. The postpartum period, or care after birth is one of the most important periods during the birthing cycle, yet there are limited resources during that time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the experiences of Qawwali musicians in India through open-ended interviews. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily looking for trends and creating categories from the data. So far we have identified broad effects of gender and identity on satisfaction and success...
Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Virtual Coworking platforms (e.g. CoFocus, Focusmate, Flow Club, Groove) have experienced a surge in popularity during the pandemic, especially among students, remote workers, and entrepreneurs/solopreneuers. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily seeking additional employment and demographic information of virtual coworkers from their LinkedIn...
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