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Cymraeg

Research Associate

Reference: 2011/0566
Closing date: 16 February 2012
Type: Redeployment - Academic
Duration: Fixed-term for 6 months
Hours of work: This is a full time position of 35 hours per week.
Date of appointment: This post is available immediately.
Salary: £30122 - £35938 per annum (Grade 6)

You will join the School of Social Sciences (SOCSI)/School of Computer Science and Informatics (COMSC) Research Network and will work on the ESRC project ‘Digital Social Research Tools, Tension Indicators and Safer Communities: a demonstration of the Cardiff Digital Research Platform (CDRP)’. This demonstrator project will develop a ground breaking, revolutionary, interdisciplinary engineering solution for next generation social scientific research: The Cardiff Digital Research Platform (CDRP).

With the explosion in social media and the interactive web (Web2.0) the potential for systematic data mining and mixed method analysis in relation to key social science concerns and questions is now possible; the CDRP provides a means of operationalising a next generation ‘social computational tool kit’. It will also provide a means of augmenting social science research training through the provision of new methodological tools and options for researchers conducting social inquiry in the 21st century.

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