Help make the digital world safer and healthier: the Smart Data Donation Service seeks a Research Associate in Data Donation and Data Engineering.
Many of us are concerned about how digital ecosystems might affect our lives: When does short-form content affect attention spans amongst young people? When does gaming boost wellbeing? How is GenAI reshaping the way we think and feel?
These questions are hard to answer because the most useful data are held inside corporations and not shared within independent researchers. The Smart Data Donation Service (SDDS) is a current piece of national research infrastructure designed to address this problem.
It enables members of the public to obtain copies of digital data that companies hold about them and donate those data for research.
We are looking for a Research Associate to join the SDDS. You will help transform donated digital trace data into usable research resources, and support researchers who wish to access and use these data. By doing so, you will be at the heart of driving forward the next generation of research into digital ecosystems.
Further information about the SDDS is available at https://sdds.ac.uk
Department
The SDDS is hosted in the Department of Psychology at the University of York and funded through the ESRC’s Smart Data Research UK programme.
Role
You will join the SDDS data team and help move donated digital trace data from pilot collection to delivery as research-ready resources.
You Will
acquire, process, and document donated data;
parse, validate, clean, standardise, reshape, enrich, link, and aggregate data;
implement data quality checks; and
support researchers with dataset guidan
📌 Research Associate (Wangoi)
🏢 University of York Computer Science
📍 Wangoi
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