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Research Assistant, School of Politics and International Relations

Employer
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD)
Location
Dublin, Leinster (IE)
Salary
£27,159.33 per annum
Closing date
15 Jul 2024

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Applications are invited for a Temporary (12 months) post of a Research Assistant within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

University College Dublin is currently recruiting a researcher to implement methods from quantitative text analysis/ natural language processing (NLP) to analyse interviews and speeches.

The research assistant will support the development of tools to identify and analyse so-called cognitive maps (Axelrod 1976) from textual data. Dornschneider and Henderson (2016, 2023) and Dornschneider (2019) have developed tools for the computational analysis of cognitive maps. What is needed is a set of tools to infer cognitive maps from natural language.

Tasks will include but are not limited to POS tagging, sequence analysis, word embeddings, and visualization. Experience with programming in Python/ R is required. Knowledge of Arabic is not necessary, but a plus.

Fixed Salary: €31,462 Per annum

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on the 15th of July 2024.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website: www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs

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UCD is Ireland's most globally engaged university with over 37,000 students drawn from 152 countries, including over 4,500 students based at locations outside of Ireland. 
 
The international standing of UCD has grown in recent years; it is currently ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions world-wide.
 
As Ireland's largest university, with its great strength and diversity of disciplines, UCD embraces its role to contribute to the flourishing of Ireland through the study of people, society, business, economy, culture, languages and the creative arts, as well as through research and innovation. 
 
Over the last decade UCD researchers have increased their annual number of papers in the international literature by 39% and have authored more than 34,000 papers in total. 56% of the papers were co-authored with researchers from more than 130 countries. These papers are cited by other researchers at a rate that is 73% above the world average.
 
Located within 4km's of Dublin city centre, the Belfield campus is a carefully landscaped, modern campus. Employees can avail of world class facilities and participate in a range of engagement activities.
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Imagine yourself in a workplace with a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity for all staff and students. UCD is committed to creating an environment where diversity is celebrated and everyone is treated fairly.
 
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Telephone
+(353)17167777
Location
BELFIELD
DUBLIN 4
IE

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