Undergraduates

Typical opportunities in the lab involve direct contact with members of a clinical population, most commonly juvenile offenders.  Responsibilities include testing offenders with a variety of self-report and interview based measures.  Data resulting from these measures are used to better inform assessment team members and treatment staff.

Given the significant amount of time contributed by undergraduate research assistants, opportunities to contribute towards professional presentations (e.g., paper presentations, poster presentations) are available.  In fact, every undergraduate assistant since 2004 has been a contributing author on at least one scholarly product.  

Given the opportunity for direct clinical contact, the selection process for undergraduate lab assistants in rigorous and highly competitive.  Typically, criminology and psychology majors with GPAs above 3.0 and who are able to commit a minimum of 8 hours at least one day per week over the course of one calendar year (including the summer semester) are most competitive.  In order to begin the application process, please complete and submit a lab application (Click here for application).  

If you have any questions regarding opportunities related to this project, please contact Patrick Cook at cookpat@auburn.edu or Dr. Burkhart at burkhbr@auburn.edu. 

Ashley, a former Mt. Meigs undergraduate research assistant and Dr. Burkhart presenting data at the 2009 Southeastern Psychological Association.