[Air-L] Job Opening: Post-doctoral Fellow on "Big Data"

KW Fu kwfu at hku.hk
Thu Mar 6 21:53:25 PST 2014


Dear all,

 

The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong
Kong is inviting applications for a position of Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF).

 

Applicants should hold postgraduate qualifications at PhD level in a field
related to Social Sciences, Statistics, Information Science, or
Journalism/Media/Communication studies. Applicants should possess a track
record of publications in high quality international journals or other
appropriate refereed publications and should demonstrate the potential of
academic publication in the coming three years. The appointee is required to
generate research outputs independently and to prepare research proposal for
competitive grant application.

 

Experience in computational social science studies, big data analysis, data
visualization, social network analysis, complex systems modeling,
agent-based computing would have a definite advantage.  Teaching experience
in courses related to media and journalism is preferred.  The successful
candidate will be involved in a research project entitled "A Big Data
Approach to Computational Media Studies".

 

Applicants should send a completed application form, together with an
up-to-date C.V. to jmsc2 at hku.hk.  Application forms (341/1111) can be
obtained at http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc.  Please indicate
clearly in the form the post applied for, as well as the field and level (if
applicable), and the reference number.  Review of applications will start on
May 1, 2014 until the post is filled.  The University thanks applicants for
their interest, but advises that only shortlisted applicants will be
notified of the application result.

 

JMSC website: http://jmsc.hku.hk/ <http://jmsc.hku.hk/jmsc-job-openings/>  

 

King-wa Fu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Journalism and Media Studies Centre

The University of Hong Kong

Room 206, Eliot Hall, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3917-1643

Fax: (852) 2858-8736

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/

 

 




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