Students I work with

I sit on doctoral committees at Georgia State and advise undergraduate and master’s students, and I take on student research assistant volunteers year-round. What follows is who I am working with, and what volunteering actually involves.

Currently

Previously

Student research assistants

I take on student research assistant volunteers year-round, undergraduate and graduate. No prior research experience is needed, and you do not need to have taken my class. The positions are unpaid; where a contribution warrants it, they can lead to co-authorship on a submission, or to a reference that speaks to specifics.

What the work is

  • Cleaning and coding field data: call records, transcripts, scrapes
  • Literature searches, and keeping a real annotated bibliography
  • Building the platforms studies run on: React, Python, Qualtrics, Prolific
  • Sitting in on analysis, from the first regression to the last robustness check

What I ask

  • Five to eight hours a week in term, agreed in advance
  • A semester or more, since research moves slowly
  • A word when something is not working, early rather than late
  • Any coding is useful (Python, R, SQL), though no project needs all of it

What to send

  • A CV or résumé, one page
  • One writing sample. A course project report is perfectly fine
  • Two sentences on which project caught your eye, and why

Email xinyufu [at] gsu.edu