21.10.2024Student Research Assistant 20 - 50 %

As part of the research project 'Adolescent Well-being in Flux: A Comparative Analysis of Adolescent Health Behaviors and Mental Distress Across Countries and Time', funded by the Population Research Center and conducted at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development and the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich, UZH, we are looking for a student assistant to help create a website to present the research results.

The project focuses on the relationship between unhealthy behaviour and psychological distress in adolescents, particularly in relation to time trends and gender differences in over 40 countries in Europe and North America. Data from the HBSC study will be used for this purpose.
See here  for more information.

• Development of a data visualisation concept for an interactive website
• Creating the interactive website with the Shiny app
• Checking/writing R-Code
• Possible collaboration in the creation of the manuscript

• Very precise, reliable and independent working style
• Very good knowledge of R (especially Shiny)
• Good knowledge of English
• High affinity for data visualisation
• High degree of independence
• Ideally experience with social science research/data

What we offer

• Insights into empirical social research and scientific work
• Collaboration on at least one scientific publication, if desired
• Work in a young, committed team in Zurich Oerlikon
• Salary on an hourly basis

Information on your application

In case of interest or questions, please contact Laura Bechtiger and Clarissa Janousch with your CV and a letter of motivation by 15.11.2024