A trip to Barcelona for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences
Unai Gómez-Hernández, a Joint PhD at the University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven, received a CDCS Training Bursary in 2024 to attend Summer Institute for Computational Social Sciences organised by the University of Barcelona.
Unai's research interests revolve around EU-China relations at the European Parliament, radical right populist parties, and geoeconomics. At the Summer School he was able to study methods of analysing political polarisation, and learn about the most accessible digital sources of political data and natural language processing (NLP).
He has now written a blog post sharing his experience: Read more about Unai's experience at the Summer School
As Unai puts it: 'All in all, attending SICSS Barcelona was a great experience. I learned new methods in an applied way, I networked with multidisciplinary researchers from all over Europe [... and on my return] I developed and delivered a workshop on how to measure polarisation in political texts to other ECRs. If you have the chance to apply for the CDCS Training Bursary, I would highly recommend it!'
