University research assistant
Code 2310.1.41
University research assistants conduct academic research for the university or college they are employed in. They may assist professors they are affiliated with, their supervisor, in their research or develop their own in the related field of that professor.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- scientific research methodology
- university procedures
Skills and competences
- speak different languages
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- archive scientific documentation
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- monitor developments in field of expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- discuss research proposals
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- operate open source software
- develop scientific theories
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- write scientific publications
- study topics
- evaluate research activities
- manage research data
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage open publications
- integrate gender dimension in research
- perform scientific research
- conduct research across disciplines
- think abstractly
- mentor individuals
- assist scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- conduct scholarly research
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- write research proposals
- apply for research funding
- use data processing techniques
Transversal competences
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage personal professional development
- perform project management
- think analytically
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- synthesise information
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