Missions

The ICOVAC - France project (Impact of COVID-19 on vaccination in France) aims to study the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on vaccination in France. Directed by Patrick Peretti-Watel (sociologist, INSERM, UVE, Marseille) and Jeremy Ward (sociologist, INSERM, CERMES3, Villejuif), this project will focus in particular on the evolution of ordinary relationships to vaccines, public debates concerning them, and the representations and practices of healthcare professionals.

The project coordinators are looking for a research engineer with expertise in computational social science, particularly computational linguistics and the management of large textual databases.

The person's work will focus on discourses on the side effects caused by vaccines and other types of public discourse on vaccines. In particular, they will be working with databases from various web media already available, as well as creating new databases from the Internet. The person will therefore be primarily responsible for analyzing textual databases, supporting the scientific valorization of these analyses and, if necessary, building up new databases.

They will work at CERMES3 (Villejuif, 94800, in the Paris area) under the supervision of Jeremy Ward.
The contract will be full-time and for a period of 18 months.
Recruitment is expected between september and december 2025.

Activités

- Application of computational linguistics and other computational social science tools
- Construction and management of Internet databases
- Literature reviews
- Participation in the writing of scientific articles, notes and reports

Compétences

Profil général :
The person recruited will have a background in computational social sciences or data sciences. The person will have a solid command of the methods usually used in the processing of massive textual data, as well as an interest in developments in this field of research. They will have an interest in the methodological challenges posed by the analysis of this type of data, and the ability to identify and use relevant innovative methods. The person will have an appetite for teamwork.

List of expected skills:
- Masters' degree in computational social science or data science
- Mastery of computational linguistics and other computational social science methods
- Mastery of database construction and management
- Advanced command of scientific English
- Ability to work in a team and with people from other academic disciplines

Contexte de travail

The candidate's host laboratory will be CERMES3 (Villejuif site, 94800). Cermes3, Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société, is a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to the social analysis of transformations in the worlds of science, medicine and health, and their relationship to society. In its current project, it has chosen to analyze these transformations in the light of the notion of “crisis”, with a particular focus on the specific effects induced by the convergence of different types of crisis. The laboratory brings together sociologists, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, economists and psychologists. Cermes3 is a CNRS (UMR 8211), Inserm (U988), EHESS and Université Paris Cité laboratory. It is attached to two Labexes: Sites and Tepsis.

The ICOVAC project is based at CERMES3 (Villejuif) and the Observatoire Régional de la Santé - PACA (Marseille). The successful candidate may be required to travel to Marseille from time to time to take part in meetings between project participants.

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