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Job Title: Associate in Research
Job Code: 1420
Job Level: 00
Job Family: JF 27

Occupational Summary
The Associate in Research (AIR) will help conduct empirical research on policing with Professor Ben Grunwald and other faculty and staff in the Wilson Center for Science and Justice (WCSJ) at Duke Law School. Likely research topics include the law enforcement labor market, use of force, racial disparities, private policing, and policing rhetoric on social media. The AIR will collect, build, clean, and manage data sets, construct and test econometric models, conduct complex data analysis, write and edit research documentation, discover and obtain new data sources, help with the design of experimental and survey studies, and perform other duties necessary to the social science research enterprise.

Much of the research will be conducted in collaboration with Professor John Rappaport of University of Chicago School of Law. For more information about Professor Grunwald’s research, please visit his faculty webpage at https://law.duke.edu/fac/grunwald; for Professor Rappaport’s, please visit https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/rappaport.

This is a term-limited, 2-year position contingent on available grant funding.

Work Performed

·         Collect, clean, process, and merge rich datasets on interstate police employment, misconduct, use of force, and police activity on social media.

·         Use statistical methods to explore policy-relevant empirical questions involving both descriptive techniques and causal inference.

·         Write research documentation describing data processing, analysis, and results.

·         Document and organize code to facilitate reproducibility.

·         File public records requests to multiple state and local agencies.

·         Supervise or train undergraduate research assistants.

·         File and manage IRB applications.

Minimum Qualifications

Education
Work requires a bachelor's degree in a related field, including quantitative disciplines such as economics, criminology, sociology, public policy, political science, computer science, or statistics. 

Experience

Skills and Abilities

• Must be self-directed
• Ability to work independently and within teams
• Ability to work effectively across multiple projects
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail 

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