PhD Scholarship - AI Detection of Misogynistic Backlash Ecosystems - Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

The Opportunity

This interdisciplinary PhD project between IT and the social sciences will explore the development of computational approaches for detecting and analysing misogynistic backlash ecosystems across social media and online platforms. The project will use natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and network analysis to identify coordinated harassment, anti-gender equality mobilisation, extremist misogyny and violence-supportive discourse, and examine how these narratives emerge, spread, and intensify across digital environments.

The successful applicant may examine such questions as: How can AI systems reliably identify implicit and evolving forms of misogynistic discourse beyond explicit hate speech? What computational measures can be developed to detect misogyny, benevolent sexism, violence-supportive attitudes and coordinated harassment at scale? How can benchmark datasets be constructed to support robust and explai...