How do I earn research experience in Psych?
How to earn research experience?
Hi, before anything, I don't mean research credit as in 2nd author, or part of the authors list or anything like that. But I'm planning to get my master's degree soon and I am very interested in research (clin psych, dev psych etc) and I graduated last year and I have just been dealing with severe executive dysfunction and my anxiety when im alone is just really bad so I havent really built a good network for these things. Im a good conversationalist irl and I know I can be a good assistant/helper once I finally have my ball rolling, or getting something going for me. I want to learn the ropes more, but I feel like I'm too old (22) to not know anything about this... I was thinking of approaching masters students and phd students that are going to my potential uni but I dont know if thats ethical? I could be good for transcribing, collecting and analyzing data, all the grunt work like that just to build my portfolio and to widen my knowledge. Is there any avenue for that that I don't know about? Any advice on this general matter (approaching researchers to become their assistant? for free) and what I can do to enter the research field even as a naive 22 year old...
Also I do have a pending paper in process for publishing from my college thesis and my adviser is very enthusiastic but shes very busy and hasnt been responding huhu I also I studied in a different province where Im not from which is also why I dont really know what to do atm. Is going to my local state university viable to look for work as well? But I cant make that much time for in persons because I also have work.