Descripción
The Swedish Defence University is an internationally renowned university in the area of defence, crisis management and security. We offer a unique academic environment where military and civilian researchers, teachers and students interact. We educate and train top-level executives, experts, and researchers for the task of analyzing and managing current and future crises, security issues and conflicts. The university educates all military officers in the Swedish armed forces and leads the academic progression of the military profession. We conduct research in the areas of Law with a focus on International and Operational Law, Leadership and Command & Control, Military History, Political Science, Systems Science for Defence and Security and War Studies. Political science at the Swedish Defence University is unique in its special focus on security and crisis management. The subject is at the same time theoretically broad, and draws on a wide range of related fields, such as international relations, political communication, public administration, and political theory as well as drawing inspiration from other research within and outside of political science. Description The position is focused on AI-assisted social science research, computational social science and quantitative methods. The research may, for example, address information influence, political and strategic communication, media and narratives. A central part of the position is to develop and evaluate scientifically rigorous ways of using large language models (LLMs) and other AI-based methods in social science research. The researcher will work in a team that conducts commissioned research on information influence and disinformation. Duties The researcher is expected to plan and conduct both independent and collaborative research and to contribute to scientific publications and conference presentations. The researcher will work in a research team conducting commissioned research on information influence an