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Sandy Schumann (PhD)

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Assessing how extremist content online can promote violence offline UCL (University College London) in United Kingdom

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PhD

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Computer Science

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Studentship funding available for UK home students

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Expired

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Computer Science
Sociology
Cybersecurity
Social Science
Agent-based Modeling
Computational Linguistics
Extremism Studies
Linguistics

About this position

I am recruiting a PhD student for our new EPSRC center for doctoral training in Cyber-physical risk. The project will examine how extremist content online can promote violence offline. Studentship funding is available for UK home students. I am looking for a motivated candidate with a social science background who is confident in developing advanced computational skills (I.e., computational linguistic analysis, agent based modeling). More information is here: https://lnkd.in/etTNKeNX - my project is „Talk is Cheap? Assessing how extremist content online can promote violence offline“. If you have questions, get in touch. And please share this information with your students!

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Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Security and Crime Science at UCL

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Cybersecurity

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Extremism Studies

Computer Science