The specialisation combines knowledge from the social sciences with skills from fields such as statistics and computer science to focus on how technological advancements both create new fields of research for social scientists and change the nature of social research itself.

Skills taught in this specialisation have a wide range of professional and academic applications. Data analysis of utilising new methodologies, technologies and operating systems is becoming an increasingly common feature of a number of different fields. This includes: various levels of government non-government organisations research agencies media as well as throughout the private sector.