5-year Fully-funded PhD positions at UW-Madison Information School

[JeffSalton]

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 31^st. 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).

[mtlgb]

Thank you for this JeffSalton,

Since this program is fully funded at a great school, I imagine it can be quite competitive. Does the program value certain attributes from applicants such as research projects, publications,  and work experience? Would you say this has been required or highly sought out in the past? 

Thank you for any other advice you can offer for someone who is very interested in this program for the future.