[Air-L] Fully funded PhD scholarship in diaspora humanitarianism

[May Friedman]

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 at ryerson.ca

Warm regards,
May


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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 at ryerson.ca


On Jul 21, 2022, at 5:46 AM, Olga Boichak via Air-L <air-l at 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
> 
>   -
> 
>   -  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:
> 
>   -
> 
>   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:
> 
> 
>   -
> 
>   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:
> 
> 
>   https://regnet.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2022-07/PhD%20scholarships%20-Diaspora%20Humanitarians%20v3.pdf
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