SICSS Delhi 2022

Last Date of Submission 4th April 2022

From Monday, June 13 to Friday, June 17, 2022, SICSS Core will sponsor the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, to be co-hosted by Centre for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC), Ashoka University and CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation. Due to uncertainities surrounding COVID-19 pandemic, SICSS Delhi will be held in a virtual mode. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived). There is no cost to participate in SICSS-Delhi.

The instructional program will involve lectures and hands-on tutorials by faculties. There will also be invited speakers from reputated national as well as international organsations who conduct computational social science research in a variety of settings, such as academia, industry, and government. Some of the topics to be covered includes digital data, natural language processing, machine learning, crowdsourcing and ethics. The overall theme of the program will be both computational as well as experimental research. Moreover, we will also be focussing on the policy practices employed for social or economic justice. The program will aslo provide an opportunity for participants to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers, other participants, and visiting speakers. Because we are committed to open and reproducible research, all materials created by faculty and students for the Summer Institute will be released open source.

Apply

In order to be guaranteed full consideration, all application materials must be submitted by 4th April 2022.

Eligibility

Participation is restricted to undergraduate students, master students, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, young industry professionals and early career faculty (within 7 years of PhD) from both industry and academia. However, there are no restrictions based on citizenship, country of study, or country of employment. About 25 participants will be invited.

The Summer Institute aims to bring together computational social scientists across all levels of technical experience. Participants with less experience with social science research will be expected to complete additional readings in advance of the Institute, and participants with less experience coding will be expected to complete SICSS boot camp. Students doing this preparatory work will be supported by a teaching assistant who will hold online office hours during the two months before the Institute.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and fields of study, especially applicants from groups currently under-represented in computational social science. We evaluate applicants along a number of dimensions: 1) research and teaching in the area of computational social science 2) contributions to public goods, such as creating open source software, curating public datasets, and creating educational opportunities for others 3) likelihood to benefit from participation 4) likelihood to contribute to the educational experience of other participants 5) potential to spread computational social science to new intellectual communities and areas of research. Further, when making our evaluations, we attempt to account for an applicant’s career stage and previous educational opportunities.

How To Apply

Applicants must submit the following documents:

(a) CV

(b) A statement on ongoing research projects (around 300 words)

(c) A list of relevant completed coursework

Applications that are not complete by the deadline may not receive full consideration. We will notify applicants solely through e-mail by 24th April 2022 , and will ask participants to confirm their participation very soon thereafter.

Inquiries can be sent to sicss.delhi@gmail.com.