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Christian Paiz - Professor,
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This apprenticeship focuses on farmworker history in the Coachella Valley, a small agricultural desert in Southern California. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Coachella Valley played a critical role in the development, successes, and challenges of the United Farm Worker (UFW) movement, one of the most important agricultural labor movements...
Social SciencesZachary Pardos - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to fill technical new researcher positions in the AskOski and OATutor research and development teams. 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyZachary Pardos - Professor, 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 Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRahul 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 SciencesRebecca Perlman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
There is growing concern about the so-called “revolving door” between regulatory agencies and the firms they are charged with regulating. However, until recently, it was impossible to comprehensively document this phenomenon, due to the difficulty of linking individual bureaucrats with their subsequent work trajectories at scale. In this project...
Social SciencesAngie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 SciencesAngie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This community-engaged multi-faceted project applies an emerging theoretical and conceptual framework (equitable aging), which centers justice and power in understanding and examining aging programs, services, and policies. This project involves qualitative data collection (e.g., focus groups, interviews, ethnographic documents, virtual ethnography), qualitative data analysis, and dissemination. For one...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesAngie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Healthcare claims (and prior authorizations) are increasingly being denied by healthcare insurance companies--many of whom are using new AI tools to categorically issue denials. Appealing insurance denials is costly in terms of time and money for consumers and clinicians and contributes to clinician workload and burnout. This community-engaged...
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 SciencesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
When do voters elect medical doctors for office? Scholars focused on symbolic and substantive representation typically concentrate on race, gender, religion, or some combination thereof. However, historically, political science scholars have been interested in occupation as a salient category, particularly lawyers. With the decline of the politician-lawyer in Congress...
Social Sciences Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
MycoMaterial Innovation: Repurposing Invasive Eucalyptus into Sustainable Building Materials Project Overview California faces two interconnected challenges: the spread of invasive eucalyptus forests, which increase wildfire risks and displace native ecosystems, and the urgent need for sustainable, low-carbon construction materials in the face of a housing and climate crisis. This...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) has set ambitious goals for conserving and restoring biodiversity as well as mobilizing public and private sector action and finance to meet these goals. Coupled to this has been the emergence of mandatory (European Union’s [EU] Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive [CSRD]) as well...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Faced with ever-increasing anthropogenic pressures, including land use change and climate change, today’s biodiversity is in crisis. Anthropogenically induced species extinction rates have become high enough to prompt researchers to dub this phenomenon the “Sixth Great Extinction”. Meanwhile, emerging voluntary biodiversity markets, in parallel to voluntary carbon markets, hold...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Project Overview El Salvador is undergoing rapid transformations shaped by cryptocurrency-driven urbanization (“crypto urbanism”) and the recent lifting of the national metal mining ban. These shifts pose urgent threats to the country’s protected natural regions, including biodiversity hotspots, watersheds, and Indigenous territories. This project investigates the socio-environmental impacts...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health 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...
Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project examines gender differences in productivity and engagement in remote work settings. Conducted with software testers in India, the experiment involves a comprehensive analysis of work patterns, interruptions, and productivity metrics in both remote and in-person settings. The study employs multiple data collection methods, including video observations, surveys...
Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is an audit study, a type of field experiment commonly used in sociology, economics, and organizational research to detect discrimination or bias in real-world decision-making. We investigate how job applicants’ stated preferences for remote versus in-person work affect their likelihood of receiving callbacks from employers...
Social SciencesCarolina Reid - Professor, City and Regional Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
An equitable transition to low-carbon homes in California requires implementation approaches that effectively reach underserved communities, including low-income and communities of colors. This study, conducted in partnership with community-based and advocacy organizations across California, is designed to increase understanding of how different governance/program structures are undertaking...
Social SciencesCarolina Reid - Professor, City and Regional Planning
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project aims to illuminate emergent housing struggles in small-town Ontario, Canada, primarily through the lens of novel tent encampment formation. In summer 2022, tent encampments emerged in parks in a not-quite urban, not-quite rural town peripheral to Toronto. In April 2023, the municipal government closed...
Social SciencesHunter Rendleman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Public service is under strain. Government agencies today face unprecedented political attacks and mounting challenges in attracting and retaining skilled workers. Yet the strength of the state depends on its people: without committed professionals, government cannot carry out its core functions. From public health to law, education, and regulation, a...
Social SciencesLaurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
If you are interesting in reading, translating, and creating stories based from the interviews on how Chinese immigrants in the bay area contribute to our communities, please apply. We are looking for students who can dedicate 10hrs+ a week...
Social SciencesLaurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
If you are interested in learning about the academic manuscript submission process, please apply. We are looking for students who can dedicate 10hrs+ a week...
Social SciencesHector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Quality of care disparities between patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) and patients proficient in English have been well documented. Language barriers between patients and providers can lead to medical errors, poor chronic condition management, and undue difficulty accessing care. LEP status is highly correlated with other risk factors for...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Quality of care disparities between patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) and patients proficient in English have been well documented. Language barriers between patients and providers can lead to medical errors, poor chronic condition management, and undue difficulty accessing care. LEP status is highly correlated with other risk factors for...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to translate linguistic interviews from a language documentation project into French, and to archive the interviews and their transcriptions and translations for use by other researchers as well as community members. The language of study for this project is Guébie, an endangered Kru language spoken in West...
Social SciencesEric Schickler - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Union members have increasingly left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party. Despite this, many labor union leaders still prominently support the Democratic Party with a few exceptions. How is that the case when labor unions are ostensibly democratically designed? Specifically, why are union leaders so overwhelmingly supportive of...
Social SciencesCarlos Schmidt-Padilla - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Secure and well-functioning property rights are a core institution behind investment, access to credit, and local development—yet in much of Latin America, property records are fragmented across registries and cadastral offices, and the quality of titling and enforcement varies widely across space and time. This project assembles and...
Social SciencesBenjamin Schoefer - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We will conduct research in macroeconomics and labor economics. The student may work on early-stage and advanced research projects. For an overview of potential topics, please see my website: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/ Please do not reach out by email before you have been selected. I cannot respond to email...
Social SciencesMarieka Schotland - Executive Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Innovations for Youth (i4Y) is a cross-disciplinary research-action center that catalyzes on innovative interventions, practices and policies to improve equity and well-being for youth locally and worldwide. Our current portfolio includes work on marginalized youth, youth voice, youth participatory action research, and student mental health and wellbeing...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, grants, and more. It also provides technical...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Technology is rapidly changing, giving humans more options than ever to decide how to communicate with each other. Whereas online options to engage with others are expanding, in-person contact seems to be decreasing. How are these changes affecting the way people connect with each other? How does this affect...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If humans are social animals, then why do they choose to remain disconnected with people sometimes? Here we explore when people don’t want to connect with others, such as when they are strangers. In one set of studies, we asked strangers to have conversations on public transportation (e.g., buses, cabs...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Human-GAI Interaction is inevitably becoming more common. We seek to address the following research questions: 1. What are the pros and cons of mandatory disclosure of non-political deepfake commercials? Would the disclosure affect people's trust towards the political information they see? 2. How could GAI aid crowd-based...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
A statewide effort was launched in 2020 to respond to pandemic-accelerated social and emotional needs of young people in schools. This project aims to build capacity at County Offices of Education around California to become regional hubs to support the delivery of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research doesn’t always involve the youth themselves. This project will train and support undergraduate students to create SEL tools for a statewide youth program: Friday Night Live. Specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is a research unit in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies for our excavation and research program at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, Greece. The Center archive houses a photographic and text archive that is in the process of being re...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
MYCENAE, largest and wealthiest of the palatial citadels of the Late Bronze Age, has been under investigation for more almost 150 years. The site, Petsas House, is a large building complex in the largely unexplored main settlement area. The current project was initiated in 2000 and has uncovered at least...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesNa'ama Shenhav - Professor , Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Beyond being a source of income, jobs can potentially convey information about a worker’s abilities, personality, or values. For example, individuals may assume that a person who is a teacher is empathetic, or that a lawyer is assertive. In turn, this could imply that a person’s job may affect how...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor Jennifer Skeem...
Social SciencesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
About Us Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor...
Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at lcdmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "LCD 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 link...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at lcdmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "LCD 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 link...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
During 2020-2021, families were often forced to change their daily routines and encountered newfound or exacerbated life stressors. We are interested in exploring whether these changes impacted parent-child conversations each day. This study researches parents’ and children’s daily routines during the COVID-19 pandemic through surveys that measure activities...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social Sciences