SMASH
Social Media Analysis and Support for Humanity

SMASH is a research group that brings together a range of researchers from the University of Edinburgh in order to build on our existing strengths in social media research. This research group focuses on mining structures and behaviours in social networks.

List of current projects:
  • Detecting stance, sarcasm, hate speech, humour & fake news
  • Creating language resources from social media
  • Language evolution over social media
  • Mental health monitoring through social media
  • Social media & privacy violation
  • Atheism in the Arab Twittersphere
  • Social bias in NLP

See Our Work

Our People

Avatar

Walid Magdy

Reader

Avatar

Björn Ross

Lecturer

Avatar

Maria Wolters

Reader in Design Informatics

Avatar

Christopher Barrie

Lecturer in Computational Sociology

Avatar

Guillermo Romero Moreno

Research Associate

Avatar

Dilara Kekulluoglu

Research Associate

Avatar

Mahmoud Fawzi

Research Assistant

Avatar

Xue Li

Research Associate

Avatar

Mohamed Bahgat

Phd Student

Avatar

Duncan Reid

PhD Student

Avatar

Youssef Al Hariri

Phd Student

Avatar

Ibrahim AbuFarha

PhD Student

Avatar

Julie-Anne Meaney

Phd Student

Avatar

Adam Ferron

Phd Student

Avatar

Eddie Ungless

Phd Student

Avatar

Amr Keleg

PhD Student

Avatar

Sandrine Chausson

PhD Student

Avatar

Yi (Wendy) Zheng

PhD student

Avatar

Zahra Bokaee

PhD Student

Our Collaborators & Funders