Internship Research Assistant Entrepreneurship Organizations
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Job Description
3month Internship position reporting to the Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organizations
Within the Department of Faculty and Research the Research Assistant is responsible for providing research support to the Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organizations to work on one of two research streams: 1) Entrepreneurship and Society or 2) Globalization of Organizations and their Effectiveness.
The first research stream involves various projects that examine the role of entrepreneurship supporting organizations in fostering an entrepreneurial culture in their respective Arab Gulf countries how social accelerators and incubators conceptualize and measure social impact and the role of international exposure in mediating entrepreneurial intentions among youth.
The second stream involves research around the ways universities as organizations adapt global models and templates to their local contexts. More specifically current research projects in this stream examine the global spread of a model of the entrepreneurial university diversity equity and inclusion and internationalization and critically observe the process of adaptation and contextualization of global models for innovative pedagogy.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct literature review of academic publications (e.g. peerreviewed journal articles edited volumes book chapters etc.)
- Write extended abstracts of peerreviewed articles as requested on relevant topics as part of the literature review process
- Data collection cleaning and preliminary analysis of primary (e.g. survey data web census) and secondary data (e.g. existing crosscountry or countrylevel datasets)
- Conduct webcensus of organizations of interest and either hand code specific information according to the coding protocol or se data from the web using computational methods
- Interview transcript transcription and qualitative coding according to existing coding protocol
Qualifications :
- Undergraduate or graduate students or recent graduates (within the last year)
- Applicants must have coursework or degrees in the social sciences (e.g. sociology business administration/management political science public policy economics)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word PowerPoint and Excel)
- Experience conducting qualitative and/or quantitative research (proficiency in Stata or R is a plus)
- Willingness to learn
- Highly organized and detailoriented
- Ability to work independently under general direction and supervision
- Possess strong communication interpersonal and timemanagement skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Additional Information :
Prerequisite
- Eligible candidates must be based in Qatar and have a valid QID for the duration of the internship
- Eligible candidates must be available to complete a minimum of 20 hours of work per week
- Office attendance is required (not open to remote work)
- Interested candidates should send a cover letter resume/CV a copy of the most recent transcript and an academic writing sample
- Interested candidates should also indicate which research stream s/he would like to work on: 1) Entrepreneurship and Society or 2) Globalization of Organizations and their Effectiveness
Disclaimer
This description is only a summary of the typical functions of the internship not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible internship responsibilities tasks and duties. The responsibilities tasks and duties of the intern might differ from those outlined in this description and other duties as assigned may be part of the internship.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
