Second application deadline for interdisciplinary PhD studentships offered by our SOCIAL CDT
Published: 12 May 2020
Up to 15 fully-funded four-year studentships for September 2020 are currently being offered within the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents (SOCIAL).
Up to 10 fully-funded four-year studentships for September 2020 are currently being offered within the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents (SOCIAL), with an application deadline of 30 June. Further details are available on the SOCIAL CDT website: www.social-cdt.org.
Outstanding applicants are being sought from areas such as Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Engineering, Mathematics and other related fields to become the next generation of experts in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents.
Successful applicants will train in the £4.9 million SOCIAL Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), one of 16 UKRI-funded CDTs across the UK. With investment of over £200 million from UKRI, partner universities and industrial partners in AI CDTs across the UK over the next few years, this is an exciting and ever-expanding field in which to study.
The SOCIAL CDT offers a unique interdisciplinary programme with strong industry links. In their first year, students undergo specialist training through 120 credits of taught courses. In years two to four, they carry out PhD research and write up their results.
Throughout the programme, students are involved in a range of cohort activities, leadership events, outreach events and student-led workshops. They benefit from a generous conference travel fund and collaboration and internship opportunities with 16 international industrial partners. The SOCIAL CDT also has unique links with the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences (SGSSS), with the opportunity for students to take part in their advanced training and popular annual Summer School.
Applicants to the SOCIAL CDT programme are required to select three preferred research projects from the SOCIAL CDT website as part of their application and are assigned one of these projects when they are accepted onto the programme. This assigned project forms the basis of the research carried out in years two to four of the programme. New projects are being added to the SOCIAL CDT website up until the end of May.
SOCIAL is a collaboration between the School of Computing Science, the School of Psychology, the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, the Adam Smith Business School, the School of Critical Studies, the School of Engineering, the Scottish Graduate School of the Social Sciences and 16 industrial partners (BRAIQ, Context-Scout, Dimensional Imaging, Dyson, FLASH Robotics, Furhat Robotics, Micro-phonics, Microsoft, Neurodata-Lab, PolyAI, Qumodo, Rakuten, Schlumberger, SICSA, Telefonica, The Data Lab).
More information about SOCIAL CDT and instructions on how to apply are available at www.social-cdt.org. Find us on twitter (@SOCIAL__AI), or email social-cdt@glasgow.ac.uk for further information.
First published: 12 May 2020