Research Assistants

Do you want to learn how to do gender research with a feminist, intersectional lens? Do you like to learn new research skills, collaborate with other students, staff, and faculty, and generate research findings with real-world implications? If so, join our research team of undergraduate and graduate students.

We have been conducting gender research for 50 years, and undergraduate and graduate research assistants have always played crucial roles in accomplishing our research. Over the years, we have equipped students with transferable and vital research skills such as research participant recruitment, qualitative data coding, qualitative data analysis, qualitative interviewing, experimental methods, archival research, data visualization, academic writing, and public writing.

Undergraduate and graduate research students meet regularly with Dr. Bethany Nichols–the Institute’s Research Associate–to accomplish research tasks, attend Institute events, and develop a strong community with one another.

We follow the University guidelines for student workers, and we compensate student researchers through hourly pay or VPUE research stipends. Students can also work on our projects through independent study arranged by their departments and receive course credit. We welcome enrolled undergraduate or graduate students from any school at Stanford.

Our vision is to do some of the most rigorous gender research in the country while simultaneously training and raising up the next generation of leaders who will understand and advocate for the most pressing gender issues of our time. To get started, reach out to Dr. Nichols.

(Image: Undergraduate Research Assistants Lauren Koong (left) and Olivia Ziegler (right) analyze letters for the Clayman Institute's #MeToo Letter Archive)