Intern Research Student Nonpaid - Sanna Lab

Score 49 / 100 · Clinical / behavioral research

Lane fit

3 / 10 (worth 30)

Level

right level (worth 15)

Timing

fits spring/summer/post-grad 2027 (worth 15)

Pay

unpaid

Location

San Diego

Employer

5 / 5 · full-time signal 0 / 3

Why

Scripps Research is a top-tier institute, but this is a nonpaid student research position in a San Diego lab that is probably bench science (Sanna Lab, likely neuroscience or addiction-related). That is far from her priorities: victim services, mental-health tech, UX research, or behavioral research. She has research methods and literature review coursework but no lab experience, and she lives in SF, so San Diego in person during senior year is awkward. Being unpaid and unlikely to convert to a job, it does not justify an exception, and the salary figure conflicts with the title, so pay is best treated as unpaid unless clarified.

Watch out for

• Title says Nonpaid, but the aggregator lists a salary of 42958.79, so the pay information conflicts
• Sanna Lab is likely a wet-lab neuroscience or biomedical lab, which is not behavioral or clinical psychology
• Description is truncated and gives no day-to-day duties
• She has no lab research assistant experience
• Unpaid; Scripps is a strong employer but this is not extraordinary for her goals
• Posting may be for current students or have a time commitment that conflicts with her SF residence

Resume angles

• Research Methods coursework and the false confessions/psychopathology literature review in Writing in Psychology
• Accurate documentation and daily Excel tracking at Kiddleton
• Researching and synthesizing materials and preparing findings at Susan Street Fine Art