UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2025: ALL RA POSITIONS FOR THE 2025-26 ACADEMIC YEAR HAVE BEEN FILLED. PLEASE CHECK BACK IN AUGUST 2026 FOR OPENINGS!
The Family Asthma Study is seeking undergraduate research assistants (RAs) with an interest in community-based research, health disparities, and behavioral interventions among low-SES Latinx families. The Family Asthma Study is testing a family-based program that helps kids and their parents manage and learn about their asthma. Undergraduate RAs will gain valuable knowledge and experience about the delivering and evaluating a family-based behavioral health intervention. Opportunities for independent research and course credit are available.
Opportunities starting in Summer and Fall Semesters: We are seeking undergraduate research assistants to conduct family assessments, code observations and interviews, conduct literature reviews, and conduct data management and analyses. On-site, community-based, and virtual/hybrid opportunities are available. Please submit your application prior to the start of the fall semester for full consideration (recommended by August 1 for full consideration).
If interested, submit your application at the link below or contact Dr. Erin Rodriguez (erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu) with any questions.
- Interest in gaining experience in psychology, child development, or health research
- Interest in working with Latinx families
- Interest in gaining experience in collecting and coding data
- Highly motivated, detail-oriented, conscientious, and reliable
- Able to communicate and effectively with other lab members
- Proficiency in Spanish is preferred, but not required
Students must be able to commit to at least 10 hours/week and at least 2 long semesters, and register for 1 semester of EDP 379L (independent research in Educational Psychology) or a related research course at UT.
Duties may include one or more of the following activities:
- Conducting interviews and assessments with families that are enrolled in the study
- Attending community-based recruitment events to recruit new families
- Supporting the training of community-based intervention facilitators
- Coding intervention sessions and family interviews
- Conducting literature reviews
- Preparing materials and other administrative activities necessary for assessments and intervention sessions
Opportunities for co-authorship on presentations and manuscripts are available to highly motivated and involved students.
