Dear colleagues, We are looking to hire a pre-doc with expertise in collecting and managing of big data. The position is part of an ESRC-funded project on the politics of collective memory based at UCL’s Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. The fixed term post (11.5 months) will start in mid-September 2024 (or later). The deadline for applications is July 22nd, 2024. I would be grateful if you could advertise the position among your students or anyone else you believe might be interested. Key information: * Starting date: Mid-September 2024 or a bit later * Duration: Fixed term 11.5 months * Main responsibilities: collection, organisation, pre-processing, and storing of large volumes of Wikipedia data, and other related tasks. * Main requirements: Master’s Degree in Computational Social Science, Data Science, Computer Science or related subjects (e.g., political science or economics with a data science focus), and excellent knowledge of relevant programming languages (most importantly R and python), data scraping, databases, data management, big data analysis, natural language processing. * Further information can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=10381&nPostingTargetId=24813&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext Don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you require further information. Thank you. Best regards, Judith