The Information School at UW-Madison is recruiting applicants to our PhD program. All PhD students are fully funded for five years, including tuition, stipend, and health insurance. Students in our program receive individual mentoring from faculty who have expertise in a wide range of areas in information and computer sciences. Broadly, we are recruiting PhD students in all of the following areas:
Bibliometrics, science of science, scholarly data analytics
Book history and print culture
Children and media
Consumer health informatics
Crowdsourcing/peer production/citizen science/CSCW
Human-computer interaction and Human-AI interaction
Information behavior
Information, data, and AI ethics
Information retrieval, text mining, and data mining
New media and innovation in the African diaspora
Public libraries and information services
Scholarly communication
Social computing and Computational Social Sciences
To learn more about specific faculty research projects, please contact faculty members listed on the PhD Program page. We encourage students from historically and statistically underrepresented groups to apply.
Applications are due December 31st. All applications are submitted through the UW Graduate School, and you can start your application here. For general questions about the program, please contact the PhD Program Chair, Associate Professor Rebekah Willett (rwillett@wisc.edu).