We are delighted to announce Esmeralda Bon, @EsmeraldaVBon as one of our UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows for 2017.
Esmeralda is an ESRC-funded PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with the Committee on Standards in russia rcs data Public Life (CSPL), an advisory non-departmental public body sponsored by the Cabinet Office. Esmeralda is affiliated with the Centre for British Politics and the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP).
My research focuses on the political communication of UK public office holders and civil society actors, with special attention for the use, presence and absence of types of evidence and emotions. I hold a liberal arts and sciences BA (hons) in the Humanities and Rhetoric & Argumentation from University College Roosevelt and a MARes and MScRes from the University of Amsterdam, in Rhetoric, Argumentation Theory and Philosophy (political argumentation specialisation) and Communication Science (media and journalism/political communication specialisation). These two masters were research oriented and covered the use and application of qualitative, quantitative and data scientific (computational) methods to scientific research.