Contract
Full time, 2 years fixed term, with the potential for extension to a 3rd year
Lead creative research using AI-powered text analysis to reveal how concepts are used academically, in the media and across social
Base Salary, Academic level A $117,936 - $125,896 + 17% superannuation

About the chance

The School of History and Philosophy of Science is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate - Digital Humanities / Philosophy of Science to develop and deploy bibliometric methods and text classification models to identify concepts and conceptual patterns in large bodies of text.

This research forms a part of two ARC Discovery Project(s) ‘Genes germs and gender: the rise and impact of bioessentialism’ and ‘Symbiotic Synergies: How the Body Became a Chimera )’. The successful candidate will join a large, interdisciplinary research group of philosophers, historians, psychologists, and scientists, contributing empirical evidence to support the group's philosophical investigations.

Your key responsibilities will be to:
Curate, clean and structure large text corpora from news media, social media and academic literature




Develop and refine automated classification pipelines using machine learning and LLM approaches
Design prompting strategies to optimise classifier precision and recall
Contribute to the interpretation of classification outputs in light of philosophical and psychological theories and concepts
Co-author peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations
Contribute to open science practices, including preparing code, data and documentation for public repositories (e.g. OSF).

About You
A PhD in a relevant field in the digital humanities
Experience curating, cleaning and structuring large corpora
Experience using NLP and/or ML to build and evaluate text classification models
Experience in prompt engineering techniques
An interest in interdisciplinary collaboration
The ability to translate conceptual research questions into computational tasks
Robust written communication skills and a track record of peer-reviewed publication
The ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team.

Location: Camperdown

AU$117,936 to AU$125,896. Base, Academic Level A + 17% superannuation
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📌 Postdoc In Digital Humanities / Philosophy Of Science Sydney
🏢 The University of Sydney
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