Literature Summary Research Assistant

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Youth In Politics
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Program Manager
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Project
Academic experience
120 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Data analysis Education
Skills
academic papers research writing
Details

Our organization publishes dozens of papers every year to promote projects in our field of research. Among these papers are systematic reviews of relevant literature, which analyze the progression of research within our field.

We would like to collaborate with students to support our literature review process by categorizing papers and summarizing important findings. This allows us to extract and process data more easily.

This will involve several different steps for the students, including:

  • Familiarizing themselves with our research and the types of academic papers that we are interested in.
  • Reading studies relevant to our area of research.
  • Applying the categorization scheme to classify relevant studies.
  • Summarizing important results from relevant studies.

Bonus steps in the process would also include:

  • Working with researchers to draft a publication based on the results.
Deliverables

By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:

  • Understanding of our area of research and the purpose of our project
  • Understanding and categorization of relevant studies
  • Summarization of important information

Bonus steps would include:

  • Assisting in the writing of a publication

Final deliverables should include

  • A final report.
  • 5 Publications.
Mentorship

Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. We will be able to provide answers to questions such as:

  • Our research projects
  • Current understanding of our field of research
  • Input on choices, problems or anything else the students might encounter.

About the company

Company
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Government, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Media & production

Youth In Politics is a registered non-for-profit student organization, with the goal of informing youth about politics and current events through journalism, podcasts, and interviews with political figures. Our roster of guests includes; Mary Simons, Kim Campbell, Andrea Horwath, Erin O’Toole, Amarjeet Sohi, etc. Youth In Politics started as a way to encourage youth to be involved in politics and find social gratification from being involved. Our end goal is to play an important role in increasing youth votership every election. We have writers and members from all over the world, with most based in Canada. Our organization has been profiled by CBC News, CP24, etc. Youth In Politics has also been recognized by the UN world food program, for our efforts when it came to covering the Yemen crisis.