How to effectively explain casual research assistance projects on CV Recently, alongside my day job (high school teacher), I have been taking up casual short-term research assistant jobs - these are not only paid, but also include me being a co-author of the paper(s) that result.

On my CV, I would like to have all this information, what would be an effective means to include all achievements of these projects?

I am hoping for specific examples if people have done this before.
In order to answer your question, you need to first understand who your CV is written for. If your CV is for you, and you are simply trying to document what you did, then you can simply list each research involvement as something like:


January 2014--July 2014 Research volunteer, Dr. Bigwig's lab. Collected samples from subjects and ran computer simulations. Contributed to 5 publications.


Ideally, you will also be able to list the publications to which you contribute.  

If you are building the CV because you want to actually use it for something (getting a raise, getting another job, going back to school, etc.), then you should seek to formalize your relationship with the lab:


Do you have a title? If not, ask for one. Since you say you are being paid, you probably have one already. You should know the title and list it.
List the dates of the appointment. Typically they are for a year or a few years, even if you are only being paid for a small fraction of that.
Since you are currently a high school teacher, you may wish to list your research appointments in a different section of your CV than your teaching appointments.


Good luck.