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Student Assistant Analyzing Climate Discourse using Natural Language Processing

Updated: 29 Apr 2024

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Amsterdam

The interdisciplinary project “Connecting Climate Discourse and Religious Language” of the VU profile theme “Connected World” is looking for two Academy Assistants, one student with technical skills in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text mining and one with a background in religious studies, linguistics or social sciences. This vacancy concerns the first position.

You will text mine websites of important environmental NGOs (e.g., Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund), utilizing archived instances of these sites to ensure a historical perspective that comprises the last decade. The other Academy Assistant with a background in religious studies, linguisitics or social sciences will relate this to religious language and the current societal debates about the environmental issues. The two Academy Assistants will be interacting with each other’s work continuously.

You will report your work such as the script to scrape and analyse texts to the project team and contribute to the final deliverables of the project including a public event and an academic journal article.

Requirements:

  • Expertise in NLP and text mining, including Python programming skills
  • Eager to learn from other disciplines, related to history, religion, sustainability
  • Completed BA or 3rd year BA in a relevant discipline (e.g., Computer Science)
  • Being enrolled as a student at a university in the Netherlands

Salary Benefits:

A challenging position in a socially engaged organisation. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research and service for a better world. And that is valuable. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:

  • a salary € 2.618,00 (SA) gross per month, on a full-time basis. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.
  • a position for 0.2 FTE. Your employment contract will last 9 months


We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and regulations. Some examples:

  • 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
Work Hours:

8 hours per week

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