Department of Land Economy

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 24 months.

Applications are invited for a full-time Research Associate to join BRIDGE, a five-year, €2 million European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant led by Dr Davide Luca, investigating urban-rural political polarisation.

The successful candidate will join an international and interdisciplinary research team comprising the Principal Investigator, Project Manager, Research Fellows and Research Assistant, and will contribute to cutting-edge research examining the causes and consequences of urban-rural divides.

The post holder will contribute across the project, with a particular focus on Work Package 3, which explores how social networks and schooling shape individual outlooks. This work will involve analysing large-scale social network data, applying Big Data, Machine Learning and Large Language Model techniques, and developing measures of social connectedness using anonymised data from online platforms....

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