The Centre for Computational Social Science (CCSS) is excited to announce a call for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year.
About CCSS:
Based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia, CCSS serves as a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary scholarship. Our focus is on understanding the intersection of data, technology, and society, and how computational methods can enhance our understanding of social phenomena.
Four Core Areas:
- Research about society: Utilizing computational techniques to analyze and extract insights from large social datasets.
- Tools: Adapting or building tools to enable computational research on social data.
- Legal and ethical challenges: Addressing complex legal and ethical issues surrounding social data usage.
- Computation and society: Examining how technology and algorithms shape society, including their impact on existing inequalities.
Fellowship Details:
- $5,000 research project support for up to 4 graduate students and $2,500 for up to 6 undergraduate students from UBC’s Faculty of Arts.
- Open to PhD and exceptional Master’s students for the graduate fellows program and BA and BS students for the undergraduate fellows program.
- Program runs from September 1, 2025, to May 31, 2026.
- Networking and professional development opportunities included.
Terms for Fellows:
- Monthly meetings
- Research symposium development
- Attendance at CCSS events
- Contribution to public-facing products
- Submission of a final report
How to Apply:
Applications due by 11:59pm PT on Thursday, May 1 2025
- For the Undergraduate Fellows program:
- For the Graduate Fellows program:
Apply now and be part of shaping the future of computational social science at UBC!
For questions about the Fellows program, please contact us at info.ccss@ubc.ca