Call for PhD studentships at the Responsible NLP Centre for Doctoral Training now live
Wed 14 February 2024
The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Responsible Natural Language Processing (NLP) is recruiting its first PhD studentship cohort – the deadline for applications is midnight (GMT) on 11 March 2024. Interested applicants can visit the Centre for Doctoral Training’s (CDT) ‘How to Apply’ page for more information.
Edinburgh Law School’s Dr Lachlan D. Urquhart is part of the CDT’s management team, where he serves as the Centre’s Law Lead and will also act as a supervisor. Other CDT supervisors from the Law School include Professor Anne-Maree Farrell, Professor Burkhard Schafer, Dr Emily Postan, Dr John Zerilli, Professor Nehal Bhuta, and Dr Rachael Craufurd Smith.
In this programme, students will gain the skills, knowledge, and experience to study and design real-world applications of NLP that are responsible and trustworthy by design. Given current hype and concerns around generative AI and large language models, ensuring systems are built in a responsible manner is critical. The Centre will offer a highly interdisciplinary training environment hosted in the new Edinburgh Futures Institute. The training programme brings together world leading researchers at the University of Edinburgh in informatics, design, linguistics, speech science, psychology, law, philosophy, information science, and digital humanities, who will supervise students and guide them in their training and learning.
The CDT will be funding up to 12 studentships to start next academic year (2024-25); and is currently looking for applicants with a background in or related to:
- Computer science, informatics and artificial intelligence
- Law, Governance and Regulation
- Design, human computer interaction and human centred computing
- Language, linguistics and speech sciences
- Digital Humanities and Information Science
However, these research areas are just indicative and the CDT is interested in applicants who come from any background or discipline with relevant skills and expertise that connect to the Centre’s five Skills Domains.
For more information on the programme, funding available, and its benefits, visit the CDT website.
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