Hello, Thank you for your message. I will be out of the office and away from email until August 2, 2022. I’ll be happy to reply to your message upon my return. For questions or concerns related to the graduate program in social work, please email Dr. Funke Oba at funoba@ryerson.ca Warm regards, May ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May Friedman (she/her) Professor School of Social Work and School of Fashion Toronto Metropolitan University 350 Victoria St. Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 Office: 208-D Eric Palin Hall 416-979-5000 x552525 may.friedman@ryerson.ca On Jul 21, 2022, at 5:46 AM, Olga Boichak via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

A fully funded PhD opportunity to research diaspora humanitarianism online

The project is available for candidates who are willing to undertake research into how and why Australia-based migrant groups use social media platforms to organise and respond to humanitarian crises abroad.

The successful candidate will join a growing interdisciplinary research team which is funded by the Australian Research Council. They will be situated within the interdisciplinary, research-intensive environment at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), within the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They will be supervised by

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  -  Professor Alan Gamlen, Australian National University   -

  -  Professor Robert Ackland, Australian National University   -

  -  Dr Olga Boichak, University of Sydney

Eligibility

We invite applicants with a strong background in computational social sciences, digital humanities and/or data science.

Essential criteria:

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  A first-class Honors or Master’s in a social science discipline, or   equivalent background   -

  Demonstrated technical skills in computational social science, regional   studies, data analysis, or computer programming (with a strong preference   for R or Python)

  Desirable criteria:

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  Competence in both qualitative, quantitative and/or computational   research methods   -

  Social media data collection and analysis skills (e.g. Natural Language   Processing (NLP),text mining, network analysis)   -

  Data visualisation skills, content analysis, corpus linguistics,   humanitarian data analysis, population analytics, econometrics, social   informatics, big data analysis, geospatial analysis, immersive analytics,   interaction design, API programming, or machine learning/deep learning

  Expression of interest will close on Friday, 16th of September 2022.

  More information at the link:

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