Teaching Fellow In Applied Social Data Science

Description:

The Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Applied Social Data Science, to commence on 1st August 2023.

The Department of Political Science wishes to make a Teaching Fellow appointment with a special focus on contributing to the development of our new postgraduate programme in

Applied Social Data Science. In particular this includes providing full-time support for the modules in this programme in terms of lectures and supervision of tutorials. The candidate will also be capable of further developing the quality of our research-led postgraduate teaching. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate strong experience in teaching and have experience in teaching as a teaching assistant or lead instructor for a variety of modules. The successful candidate will have an active research agenda / publication strategy in quantitative social science that relies on methods such as advanced econometrics, machine learning, and quantitative text analysis. An ability to teach modules in research design and quantitative research methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate level is highly desirable.