Tag: academia

Research by jreadesDec 16, 201912:13 pm

No, this is not my boyfriend's computer. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_disparity_in_computing#/media/File:Not_boyfriends_computer.jpg

Funded PhD Opportunity: Gendering the Research Pipeline (GReP)

This funded PhD project seeks to employ data science and text mining methods to enhance our understanding of how a ‘gendering’ of the research pipeline might offer insight into the challenges faced by women as they make the transition from students to independent researchers. We are looking for a passionate, curious, and careful candidate with data science and programming skills, and an interest in NLP and the ethics of data science/AI to work on an exciting collaborative CASE Studentship involving the British Library and supervisors at King’s College London and the Alan Turing Institute/University of Warwick!

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Research by jreadesMar 26, 20182:00 pm

MoDS: Mapping Knowledge with Data Science (MSc + PhD Studentship)

Although we had some great responses to our initial call, we’re still looking for the ‘right’ candidate for this fully-funded studentship that is open to both undergraduate finalists as well as completing Masters students. The project involves the application of data science techniques (text-mining, topic modelling, graph analysis) to a large, rich data set of 450,000+ PhD theses in order to understand the evolving geography of academic knowledge production: how are groundbreaking ideas produced and circulated, and how does researcher mobility and institutional capacity shape this process?

Research by jreadesDec 13, 20176:06 pm

MoDS: Mapping Knowledge with Data Science

I’m really excited to announce the latest addition to our department’s growing stable of computational geography research: a fully-funded 1+3 ESRC CASE studentship involving the application of data science techniques (text-mining, topic modelling, graph analysis) to a large, rich data set of 450,000+ PhD theses in order to understand the evolving geography of academic knowledge production: how are groundbreaking ideas produced and circulated, and how does researcher mobility and institutional capacity shape this process?