Number of individual students required: up to 6 (open to teams of 2 individuals)

The research assistants will support the research initiatives including:

Visible minorities on boards in Canada, visible minorities in the role of Chair, public companies, private, and nonprofit, across several sectors.

The position requires skills in data retrieval and manipulation, empirical methods, and data display.

The project may include, but is not limited to:

• Overseeing complex data collection, manipulation, and data storage.
• Planning and performing the outlines and looking after data retrieval (eg, data scraping) and analysis (eg, big data analysis) using existing tools and methods.
• Responsible for complex tasks in relation to data retrieval and analysis.
• Supports the project/study by surveying literature and using existing tools to generate data.
• Determining appropriate research type and method that best fits the project.

Phases:

Phase 1) literary research & research method (Quantitative and/or Quantitative)

Phase 2) sample size determination, primary and secondary data and document analysis

Phase 3) Analytical measurement, calculation, and evaluation of results

Daily project meetings, 24/7 access to Ryan