The Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS) was established in 2016 as an interdisciplinary center at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, involving faculty and students from anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology, as well as from network and data scientists from the Danish Technical University. At the heart of the Faculty’s Social Big Data Initiative, SODAS’ vision is to create a social data science community focused on (i) leveraging advances in data science and in the collection of digital and/or big data and new data forms for the benefit of social scientists; (ii) enriching and combining qualitative and quantitative methods; and, (iii) at the same time, to study how such data, and not least their ethical and privacy-related challenges, transform the ways of doing social science.

Applicants can have a background across the social and technical sciences with stated and/or demonstrated interests in combining them. The PhD proposal should contain 3-4 pages containing (1) a description of proposed research projects, including their interdisciplinary nature; (2) experiences with data science methods and interdisciplinary study and research; (3) time schedule (4) the applicant’s thoughts on how to contribute to making SODAS a successful research infrastructure.