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Opening for Teaching Fellow in International RelationsThe Department of Political Science is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in International Relations, to commence on 1st September 2021. Closing date for receipt of completed applications is no later than 12 Noon GMT on Thursday 17 June 2021. -
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Data Science set to launch in 2021-22In response to significant demand in the labour market for professionals with advanced data science skills, Trinity College Dublin is launching a new Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Data Science. The programme will be housed in the Department of Political Science, with support from the School of Computer Science and Statistics. The one-year, full-term postgraduate programme is supported by the Human Capital Initiative and aims to introduce students to fundamentals in quantitative social science research methods and state-of-the-art analytic approaches from the fields of statistics and machine learning. Graduates of the course will acquire a rich repertoire of social scientific research design skills - grounded in the scientific method - and data analytic methods that are widely sought after in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
