Postdoc (3 Years) on Nihilistic Violent Extremist Groups

Full-time Social Scientists and Related Workers

Your function

We will be hiring a Postdoc on a project to investigate Nihilistic Violent Extremist (NVE) groups – that is, radical online groups (consisting of mostly adolescents and young adults) that are notorious for committing a broad range of crimes, consisting of members who appear to be driven less by a clear ideology than by general desires for chaos and online status. You will work within an interdisciplinary research team that includes Prof. dr. Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Prof. dr. Arjan Blokland, and Dr. Elanie Rodermond. You will investigate these issues with sophisticated data science techniques (i.e., statistically analyzing a large volume of social media data). You will present the findings at conferences and publish them in academic journals. The targeted starting date is 1 January at the latest.

Your duties

map out existing literature on NVE groups and develop ideas for cutting-edge research on these groups

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