35.2435, Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, Birmingham City University

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Subject: 35.2435, Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, Birmingham City University

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Date: 06-Sep-2024
From: Tatiana Grieshofer [tatiana.grieshofer at bcu.ac.uk]
Subject: Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, Birmingham City University


Institution/Organization: Birmingham City University
Department: College of English and Media

Level: PhD

Specialty Areas: Text/Corpus Linguistics

Description:

On behalf of our Funding Partner Meedan, Birmingham City University
are excited to open a call for expressions of interest in two new PhD
Studentships currently being created.

Project Title: Analysing the Language of Technology Facilitated
Gender-Based Violence

This project will address one of the priority research areas of
Meedan’s strategic work in the Larger World (aka Global South): the
development of safe and inclusive media ecosystems through challenging
technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) and gender
disinformation. There is increasing concern globally that women and
LGBTQIA+ communities experience high rates of online abuse,
perpetuating a climate of fear and self-censorship. Some governments
have introduced social media regulation to protect young people from
harmful content, and the potential for online gender-based
discrimination to spill into the offline world is widely recognised.

The project will take a corpus linguistics approach to examine the
language used in harmful communication found on social media and
messaging platforms, using a range of large-scale analytical
techniques to pinpoint the key characteristics of these kinds of
communication, making them easier to identify automatically.
Linguistically driven research is well-suited for reflecting on the
lived experiences of victims and monitoring how harmful speech emerges
and spreads across networks, contributing to tracking potentially
harmful communication and limiting the scope of victim exposure. The
project will sit alongside other research into machine learning, AI
and large language models (LLMs, which underpin chatbots like
ChatGPT), and its results will help to make these models more robust,
by challenging their biases around the meaning and use of language,
especially in terms of locality.

Please note: this opportunity is limited to candidates holding
citizenship of a country on the DAC list of ODA recipients.
For more information, please visit https://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our-
phds/phd-opportunities/analysing-the-language-of-technology-facilitate
d-gender-based-violence

Web Address for Applications: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our-phds/
phd-opportunities/analysing-the-language-of-technology-facilitated-gen
der-based-violence

Contact Information:
Dr Tatiana Grieshofer, Associate Professor in Language and Law,
tatiana.grieshofer at bcu.ac.uk



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