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Climate action demands drastic behavioural and social changes for a variety of actors. Success of technological interventions climate change mitigation and adaptation policies critically depends on our understanding of drivers of citizens’ behavior, including psychological biases, individual preferences, and social influence. We welcome an Assistant Professor with a passion to integrate and advance behavioural insights for effective climate policy design, communication and compliance concer[…]

The Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS) at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) is opening a post-doc position for investigating how social norms emerge and change in on-line communities and the extent to which they affect the debate in the online context, e.g., spreading of misinformation and “fake news”, hate speech, etc. This line of research will contribute to the research agenda of the EU-funded HUMANE-AI […]

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I am looking to hire three postdocs in Computational Social Science at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI. They will work as part of the Policy Modelling Theme, in an exciting research environment, and with a unique opportunity to have impact in real-world policymaking. These positions are for two years and take place […]

Computational social scientist PhD fellowship in Norway to pursue interdisciplinary methods for studying “pop up” humanitarian aid actors. Ideal candidate has both qualitative (especially ethnographic fieldwork) data experience as well as modeling skills and abilities.

PRAEDOC

Duration of employment: 4 year/s

Extent of Employment: 30 hours/week

Job Description:
Participation in research, teaching and administration:
- Participation in research projects/ scientific studies in the field of Computational Communication Science
- Participation in publications/ academic articles/ presentations
- We expect the successful candidate to sign a doctoral thesis agreement within 12-18 months
- Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as define[…]

Open position in computational social science at Sandia National Laboratories for someone with interest and expertise in simulation and/or data analysis, to work on a variety of projects related to computational social science. We’re doing work with system dynamics modeling, agent based simulation, cognitive modeling, complexity, and causality for a variety of research and application topics. A PhD is preferred, but there are related positions open that don’t necessarily prefer a PhD

University of Central Florida – College of Engineering and Computer Science

Postdoctoral Fellow in Agent-Based Modeling of Information Spread and Evolution over Online Social Media (Starting Fall 2019/ Spring 2020)

The work undertaken by The James Hutton Group is right at the top of the global agenda tackling problems such as the impact of climate change and threats to food and water security.

ICS compri[…]

Three year MRC Skills Development Fellowship, University of Glasgow

Eligible candidates: Postdoc with advanced quantitative or computational social science skills

The post-holder will be requ[…]

The research related to this position will focus on political analysis using big data and other computational social science methods, and will be carried out in close collaboration between Depart[…]