Literature Summary Research Assistant
Project scope
Categories
Data visualization Data analysis Education Social sciences Scientific researchSkills
academic papers research writingOur research institute 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 or problems within a specific vertical of the UN SDG's.
We would like to collaborate with students to support our literature review process by categorizing papers, summarizing important findings and fact checking.
Bonus points if you can develop a software program or workflow that helps execute this at scale.
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.
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.
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.
Supported causes
Quality educationAbout the company
The Earthshot Research Institute is a Canadian federally incorporated non-profit organization, focused on solving the World's Biggest Problems.