Convocatoria: Fully funded PhD position in quantitative text analysis/ NLP – University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations (Plazo: 8 de abril de 2024)

Fully funded PhD position in quantitative text analysis/ NLP – University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations

Organismo: University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations

Requisitos: 

• Some undergraduate or masters-level training in quantitative research methods, data science, or quantitative text analysis/NLP 
• Preferably a political science, data science, and/ or computer science background. 
• Arabic language skills are a plus but not required. 
• Master’s level-degree in relevant subject area, with a minimum 2.1 grade (GPA 3.6). 
• Some familiarity with Python and R and/or willingness to engage in training for both. 
• Strong commitment to engaging in UCD’s SPIRe doctoral research training programme (either the PhD in Politics and International Relations or the PhD in Quantitative and Computational Social Science). 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, including working to tight deadlines. 
• Strong commitment to working in an interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research team Awareness of UCD’s equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.

Solicitudes: 

Application materials: 

• Cover letter outlining your motivation for the PhD position (max 2 pages). 
• Curriculum Vitae (max 2 pages – focused on your educational/research credentials). 
• Thesis proposal that addresses the above project (max 2 pages). o Note – this is mainly designed to assess your engagement with the ideas of the project. 
• Names and contact details of 2 referees. 

Applications will only be considered if the full documentation have been emailed to stephanie.dornschneider@ucd.ie by 5pm on April 8th.

Comentarios: 

This is a 4 year (48 month) position.

They are recruiting a PhD doctoral researcher to work on a project funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC). The project applies methods from quantitative text analysis to examine Arabic interviews with participants in Muslim resistance movements. The main objective related to the advertised PhD position is to help develop tools to identify and analyse so-called cognitive maps (Axelrod 1976) from the available interview data. 

The cognitive mapping analysis has four main objectives: 

1. to show typical behavioral decisions (e.g. to join a resistance a movement) described by the interviewees
2. to identify common reasoning processes related to these decisions
3. to trace the role of religious beliefs in these reasoning processes. 

 The benefits include: 

• €25,000 tax-free stipend per year for 4 years 
• Full fees paid every year (either EU or non-EU fees) 
• Shared office space 
• A multidisciplinary doctoral studies research panel 
• Integration into UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe) doctoral training programme, or the PhD programme in Quantitative and Computational Social Science 
• Acting as international researcher in a prestigious IRC consolidator grant.

Plazo de presentación: Hasta 08/04/2024 (Susceptible a error de cálculo, comprobar siempre)

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