Digital Social Science LUT University

Overview

The growth in digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence, offers rich opportunities in accessing a wide array of data. Solving today’s and tomorrow’s problems is no longer a question of whether one has data. Rather it is a question of how best to use this exponential growth in data to make bold but evidence-based decisions. 

The Master’s Programme in Digital Social Science from  LUT University  provides you with the skills and competence to do so through a social science approach in the use of data. A social science approach entails a critical evaluation of a variety of data through different theoretical perspectives about society and with empirical rigour. This approach allows you to bridge the gap between raw data and real-world impact. Raw data can show patterns in how people act. Social science theories can help explain why there are patterns in how people act.

In this programme, they offer you a curriculum that combines training in empirical methods with exposure to core social science theories to enable you to skilfully use different types of data, credibly interpret empirical results, and confidently translate them into decisions and insights. 

Career prospects

The Master’s Programme in Digital Social Science offers you skills for positions in the private and public sectors that require you to analyse data, interpret results uncovered from such data, and translating such results into organisationally relevant insights.

The programme thus prepares graduates for roles in data analysis, market research, policy analysis, political analysis, and risk analysis in the private and public sectors. It also prepares graduates interested in pursuing a doctorl degree in the social sciences.