Postdoctoral Position in Computational Social Science for Studying and Combating Everyday Misogyny in Visual Online Cultures Uppsala University in Sweden

Umeå University (Sweden) is recruiting one to two PhD students in Statistics for the research project “Next-Generation Latent Variable Models for Social Data Science” at the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE), Department of Statistics. The project focuses on statistical theory, methodology, and computational methods for complex social science data, with emphasis on latent variable models and their connections to modern machine learning . The research is motivated by applica...

This postdoctoral project focuses on computational modeling and simulation of spreading processes in population-scale multilayer social networks . The work is hosted at Uppsala University , within the Department of Information Technology and the interdisciplinary Information Laboratory (InfoLab) , where research combines basic and applied approaches to extracting knowledge from social data. The project is part of the eSSENCE graduate school in data-intensive science , linking methodological deve...

Postdoctoral position on spreading processes in multilayer population-scale social networks , offered as part of eSSENCE – the Swedish eScience Collaboration school in data-intensive science. The research will contribute to expanding work on population-scale social networks, including analysis of spreading processes across multilayer networks and related work on network segregation. The project involves large-scale social-network data and computational, quantitative approaches relevant to networ...

PhD opportunity in Technology and Society at Lund University This doctoral position is part of REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies), an MSCA doctoral network studying how regulation can learn and adapt when technologies, risks, and expectations change quickly. The project is hosted at LTH, Lund University , within the Department of Technology and Society and the research group led by Stefan Larsson , with a focus on social science-oriented, multidisci...

Uppsala University’s Department of Informatics and Media is advertising a fully funded PhD position in Media and Communication Studies , based in Uppsala, Sweden . The doctoral student will join the project AI Confidential: Emerging Forms of AI Chatbot Use for Emotional Support and Personal Well-being Among Young Swedes , funded by the Swedish Research Council. The project examines how young people aged 15–18 interpret and relate to AI as a conversational partner in personal areas of life, and h...