PhD Lead Representative – DSAIL Research Themes (Creativity, Environment, Foundations, Health, Integrity)

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PhD Lead Representative – DSAIL Research Themes (Creativity, Environment, Foundations, Health, Integrity)

The Data Science and AI Institute @ Lancaster (DSAIL) is seeking to appoint PhD students to act as PhD Lead Representatives for each of DSAIL’s research themes: Creativity, Environment, Foundations, Health, and Integrity.

The Creativity theme led by Joseph Lindley (j.lindley@lancaster.ac.uk) researches how generative AI is transforming creative processes and reshaping notions of authorship and ownership, while also working to enable transdisciplinary inquiry through the use of creative methods to push the boundaries of data science and AI research.

The Health theme is led by Neil Reeves (n.d.reeves1@lancaster.ac.uk) and covers several areas of health, data science and AI from across the university including biomedical, digital health technologies, health economics, medical imaging and health-related security among many other areas.

The Integrity theme led by Claire Hardaker (c.hardaker@lancaster.ac.uk) explores how societies can build trust, transparency, justice, fairness, accountability, and resilience in an era where AI and data-driven technologies evolve faster than the ethical processes, governance structures, and safeguarding interventions meant to oversee them.

The Environment theme, led by Sally Keith (sally.keith@lancaster.ac.uk), aims to develop new understanding and innovative solutions to the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, which are inextricably linked. This time-critical mission requires close cross-disciplinary collaboration between ecologists, environmental scientists, computer sciences, statisticians, social scientists, and many others.

The Foundations theme is led by Burak Boyaci(b.boyaci@lancaster.ac.uk) and covers the three main areas of data science, operational research, computer science and statistics. The foundations theme blends the skills of researchers in these areas, to address challenges arising from industry and research.

Each theme is looking to recruit a PhD student who will help bring together and lead a community of PhD/postgraduate students from across Lancaster University with an interest in that theme and/or in data science and AI more broadly.

The vision is that, by convening an active community of PhD/postgraduate students around shared interests in data science and AI (and its application to one of DSAIL’s themes), we will enrich the PhD/postgraduate educational experience and contribute to strengthening research culture and research quality across the University.

PhD Lead Representatives will be given the opportunity to organise theme-linked activities for PhD/postgraduate students, for example:

· informal networking and community-building events

· workshops and reading groups

· training and skills sessions

· opportunities for cross-theme collaboration (e.g., joint events across Creativity–Integrity, Environment–Health, Foundations–all themes)

Students should speak with supervisors about this opportunity before applying

Call for Applications

If you are a current Lancaster University PhD student (at any stage) and are interested in taking on a PhD Lead Representative role for one of the DSAIL themes (Creativity, Environment, Foundations, Health, or Integrity), please send an EOI and CV to the named leads in these research themes.

· a short expression of interest (no more than one page of A4), and

· a brief CV (no more than two pages)

Closing date: 20th April

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