Paid Summer Research Internship with Harvard's Lab for Developmental Studies

The Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies invites 

undergraduate students and graduating seniors to apply for our 2025 paid summer internship program. The internship will run for 9 or 10 weeks (Dates TBD, but will align with Harvard’s BLISS program; last year’s internship ran from Monday June 10th to Thursday August 8th). This full-time paid internship position is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience as a research assistant in a child development psychology lab. The application deadline is Saturday March 1st, 2025 at noon Eastern Time. Have Questions? Please explore our Frequently Asked Questions section. If your inquiry is more specific, feel free to reach out to us at harvard-dev-studies@g.harvard.edu.

Qualifications/Requirements: 

-Must be an undergraduate student, graduating senior, or recent graduate
-Must either have U.S. citizenship or a sponsored visa (please check out the FAQ section first and then email us if you have any outstanding questions!)

-Reliable, motivated, organized, independent, and detail-oriented, enthusiastic and ready to learn
-Experience working with children and families preferred
-Particular interest in social, emotional, and cognitive development and/or language acquisition/psycholinguistics

Responsibilities: 
-Recruiting and scheduling participant families from the greater Boston community and for in-person and online studies
-Conducting literature reviews and familiarizing yourself with background literature
-Collecting data using a variety of methods (e.g., EEG, eye tracking, behavioral studies, habituation, violation of expectation, corpus analysis)
-Creating experimental stimuli and assisting with experimental design
-Coding and analyzing data (e.g., using R Studio, SPSS, PyHab, ELAN, Matlab)
-Assisting with write-ups

-Attending a variety of meetings, seminars, and professional development events that will contribute to their learning of the literature and the psychology research process
-Biweekly “intern-tainment” events (e.g., BBQs/picnics, movie nights, escape rooms, beach days, etc.)

How To Apply:

Please fill out our Google Form application (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9A6oxzxyYvS76UxgmEg4KbdpxSBgh3uxW5s0G6fseyJpQOg/viewform), which contains some short answer questions and will prompt you to upload a CV/resume. Please note that you will be asked to rate your preferences for individual lab placements (Thomas, Bergelson, Snedeker).

Please contact harvard-dev-studies@g.harvard.edu with any questions.