Provide supervision for global poverty / effectiveness research projects to highly motivated students, in order to deeply involve them with EA.
Cool, I hadn’t thought about this one. What’s the scope of this? How many students do you typically have working on the research? What’s a typical student project?
This year we’ll have 3 summer interns for GWWC coming for 2-3 months and potentially a bit longer. Two of them will likely be substantially involved in research. I think this is somewhat representative of a typical GWWC summer internship cohort (Michelle might be able to add to this?).
We also have students from the UK doing research projects with us part-time. Some are at Oxford and come in to talk in person and some we talk to over skype. I estimate that I have about 2-3 hours of meetings with them a week and then spend some time to give feedback on their research (or sometimes on their essays). We’re currently trying to scale this up and get more volunteers.
Here’s a recent report from one of our student volunteers Max on TB (which is still in manuscript form and is not published yet):
Cool, I hadn’t thought about this one. What’s the scope of this? How many students do you typically have working on the research? What’s a typical student project?
This year we’ll have 3 summer interns for GWWC coming for 2-3 months and potentially a bit longer. Two of them will likely be substantially involved in research. I think this is somewhat representative of a typical GWWC summer internship cohort (Michelle might be able to add to this?). We also have students from the UK doing research projects with us part-time. Some are at Oxford and come in to talk in person and some we talk to over skype. I estimate that I have about 2-3 hours of meetings with them a week and then spend some time to give feedback on their research (or sometimes on their essays). We’re currently trying to scale this up and get more volunteers.
Here’s a recent report from one of our student volunteers Max on TB (which is still in manuscript form and is not published yet):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lEy4PuJHWVD0JQufb8FPyYm1bN5JYAiA6Ivoko5ROGY/edit?usp=sharing
you can find more of our students writing on our blog:
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/blog