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Research Fellow / Associate - PRISM

The University of Manchester

Manchester, England, United Kingdom Fixed Term July 19, 2026
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Vacancy Description

We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to support the Political Rhetoric and Influence on Social Media (PRISM) project. This interdisciplinary APEX-funded project will investigate whether successful online political influencers in the US and UK use a distinctive rhetorical style or “brand” to engage audiences and communicate during political events.

You will be responsible for:

  • Supporting the development of PRISM’s interdisciplinary framework for identifying the rhetorical brand of online political influencers across US and UK election contexts.
  • Collecting, cleaning, documenting and securely managing social media datasets and metadata from the 2020 and 2024 US Presidential elections and the 2024 UK General Election.
  • Designing, implementing and evaluating NLP and machine-learning approaches to classify communicative frames, linguistic features and influencer styles at scale.
  • Contributing to annotation, validation, survey expe...

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    Vacancy Details

    Location Manchester, England
    Country United Kingdom
    Type Fixed Term
    Category Social Scientists and Related Workers
    Posted July 19, 2026

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