Fully-funded Doctoral Studentships - SOCIAM: The Theory and
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Fully-funded Doctoral Studentships
SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines
Supervisor: Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Start date: October 2016
The Department of Computer Science is offering two fully-funded DPhil studentships, under the supervision of Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Dr Max Van Kleek, and Dr Jun Zhao. The studentships are for home/EU students, and include provision for travel funds and related research/educational expenses. The studentships will be funded for three years and will start in October 2016.
The studentships will be aligned with the EPSRC-funded collaborative interdisciplinary project SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines http://sociam.org/. The Project’s core objective is to establish the research, methods, tools, networks and collaborations to allow us to understand social machines (computational entities governed by both computational and social processes) in order that they can be designed and deployed by the full range of potential beneficiaries. The work of the Project is highly integrative and students will be expected to take a holistic approach to their studies. Potential research topics will include:
● Social computing
● Crowdsourcing and human computation
● Human-computer interfaces for social machines
● Decentralised architectures for social machines and supporting technologies, including blockchains, p2p architectures, semantic technologies, and Linked Data
● Data and process mining and analytics such as social network analysis, social media management, and text mining
● Applications of the above to areas such as healthcare, personal information management, citizen science, public administration and safety, transport and emergency response
● Policy and technologies to promote privacy in social machines
Applicants must in addition satisfy the entry requirements for studying for a doctorate at Oxford.
There is no deadline for applying. We will continue to process applications until a suitable candidate is found. Candidates are therefore recommended to apply as soon as possible and to inform Julie.sheppard@cs.ox.ac.uk when they have done so. Please also email if you have any questions about the application process.
If you have any technical questions about the DPhil studentships, please email:
sociam@cs.ox.ac.uk.
Please quote CS-NS-Stud16 in the studentship reference box.
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