Principal Researcher: Yannick Dufresne, Assistant Professor
The Leadership Chair in The Teaching of Digital Social Science (CLESSN) welcomes dynamic young researchers who are passionate about digital social science research and creating accessible digital data visualization tools..
CLESSN offers a comprehensive training and expertise that explores the technical, theoretical and ethical challenges associated with new digital data in the social sciences. It develops digital research methods in the social sciences as well as applications for interactive data dissemination.
The Chair maintains several partnerships with governmental, media and civil society organizations, which allows it to ensure the dissemination of its research findings.