The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) seeks to fill a 4-year PhD position in Norrköping, Sweden. IAS is an interdisciplinary research center on the intersection of analytical sociology and computational social science.

The PhD-project will be conducted within the broader project “Mining for Meaning: The Dynamics of Public Discourse on Migration.” The candidate will join an international research group with backgrounds in sociology, political science, statistics, and machine learning that interprets large corpora of social text (from online forums, newspapers, parliamentary speeches) as “social sensors,” and applies computational text analysis to explain the processes by which collectively agreed-upon narratives arise from interactions between the public, the media, and political actors.

The candidate will be enrolled in IAS’s postgraduate training (including coursework totaling 60 ECTS points).

To get more information and apply, please follow this link.