Research Associate in Computational Journalism

Contract Type: Fixed-term 6 months, but with a start date no later than 01 January 2025.

Working Pattern: 50 FTE - 17.5 hours per week

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

Are you interested in working within an internationally connected, world-leading multidisciplinary research team on a computational journalism project? 

We are welcoming applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate position in the area of computational journalism. Your focus will be on conducting collaborative research into the monitoring of non-lethal human rights violations against journalists, as part of the project “Influencing policy work on human rights violations against journalists”. 

You will carry out research on identifying, collecting and coding data to represent the range and types of violations recorded over a period of time, using and augmenting existing datasets, as well as making use of Natural Language Processing and corpus analysis techniques and social science statistical methods to assist in the process of categorising, correlating and analysing qualitative and quantitative data. You will be expected to disseminate via national and/or international conferences and journals. . You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience in this topic and in writing one or more high-quality research papers. 

You should hold a PhD (or be near completion / have equivalent experience) in Social Science or Computer Science with a solid research background, and have proven experience working with and analysing large datasets and in computational and social science statistical methods, as well as  the ability to work effectively with both internal colleagues and external project partners. 

For informal discussions about the role please contact Dr Diana Maynard on d.maynard@sheffield.ac.uk 

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