Climate & Public Discourse Research Fellow

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) at NTU is inviting a Research Fellow to contribute to the Climate Transformation Program: Cross Cutting Theme 1—Sustainable Societies. The role focuses on combining communication, public opinion, and data science to understand attitudes toward climate change.

You will work with Professor Shirley Ho and a diverse team, producing manuscripts, presenting findings at conferences, and helping manage project milestones within NTU and

Qualifications

• PhD in Communication, Media Studies, Computational Social Science, Information Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Strong expertise in sentiment analysis, opinion mining, or computational analysis of public discourse.
• Proficiency in Python or R and experience with large-scale textual data.

Responsibilities

• Conduct literature reviews and support manuscript development.
• Collect and analyze online public discourse data using sentiment/content analysis.
• Apply statistical and computational methods to large text datasets.
• Contribute to peer‑reviewed articles and conference presentations.
• Prepare progress reports and disseminate findings to academic and public audiences.
• Assist with project coordination and administrative tasks.

Skills

Python

R

Sentiment analysis

Large language models

Education

PhD in a relevant field

Tools

Transformer models

NLP toolkits

Job description

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) at NTU is inviting a Research Fellow to contribute to the Climate Transformation Program: Cross Cutting Theme 1—Sustainable Societies. The role focuses on combining communication, public opinion, and data science to understand attitudes toward climate change.

You will work with Professor Shirley Ho and a diverse team, producing manuscripts, presenting findings at conferences, and helping manage project milestones within NTU and