Research school list

We are looking for an experienced online researcher specialist to help us build the most comprehensive possible list of people who have attended a specific school over its lifetime. (No Placeholder bids)

Objective

Create an advanced alumni name list by identifying as many former attendees as possible using ethical methods

Scope of Work

The freelancer will:

Research publicly available sources to identify alumni names, including:

websites like discord and luma

Articles, blogs, interviews

Event pages

Alumni posts and testimonials

Identify patterns, cohorts, timelines, and name variants

Build a clean, structured database of names with source references

Confirmed attendees

Probable attendees

Unverified mentions

Allowed & Expected Methods

Manual and automated data gathering from publicly accessible sources

Platform-compliant data collection

Name matching and de-duplication

Source attribution for every entry

Deliverables

A structured alumni database (CSV / Google Sheet)

Fields to include:

Full name

Known aliases / nicknames (if public)

Timeframe / cohort (if available)

Source link(s)

Confidence level (confirmed / likely / possible)

Short methodology summary explaining how data was gathered