Sandrine Chausson

Sandrine Chausson is a Research Associate in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication where she works with Dr Sara Torsner on the ESRC-funded research project Profiling impunity for human rights violations against journalists: A systematic account of state-based harm and practices of resistance. In parallel, Sandrine is completing her PhD studies at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Her PhD focuses on developing computational text analysis and data science methods for inductive social science research and applies these to investigating online collective sense-making processes in the context of the 2020 US elections and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. 

With a background in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of York and Computer Science from Imperial College London, her technical expertise lies in applied Natural Language Processing using Large Language Models and Machine Learning. Her research, with its focus on theory, mixed-methods and interdisciplinarity, contributes to the fields of sociology, cultural studies, political science and communication. Throughout her academic journey, Sandrine has collaborated with institutions such as the Alan Turing Institute, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the University of California Berkeley, and the Queensland University of Technology. She is also a dedicated educator, having worked as Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the University of Edinburgh, where she co-created, organised and delivered interdisciplinary social data science related MSc courses at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and supervised several undergraduate and master’s students.