The UK’s Metascience Unit has launched a new £4m fellowship opportunity for early career philosophers, social scientists, and/or AI researchers interested in building a career in understanding one or more of the following topics:
- How the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape and the day-to-day work of researchers?
- What are the epistemic, metascientific, ethical and/or socioeconomic implications of these changes?
- How governments, industry, and/or funding organisations should respond to improve our research landscape?
This is a unique opportunity for someone early in their research career to spend two years with significant freedom to explore questions in this new and urgent area, with a route to impact at the heart of government.
The opportunity aligns with Royce’s announcement of the appointment of Professor Jacqueline Cole as Royce Challenge Lead for AI in Materials Discovery, Characterisation and Application. Jacqueline’s remit is supporting the materials community to adopt digital methods, leveraging AI and data to advance ‘Materials 4.0.’
Areas for the materials researcher community may wish to consider are:
- How will the increasing use of AI change the way that scientific researchers record, evaluate, store and publish their data?
- How will the interplay of AI and robotics unfold and impact on the next generation of scientific researchers?
- How will AI change the design and execution of experiments whose goal is to discover new materials for a given industrial application?
- How will AI change the design and execution of experiments whose goal is to develop manufacturing processes for a given industrial application?
- How will AI change the way that scientific researchers analyse and interpret their data?
- How will scientific practice in the UK start to deviate from other parts of the world as they set out different AI policies?
Apply here: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-metascience-ai-early-career-fellowships/
Fellowships can be up to two years duration, with full economic cost (FEC) up to £260,000.
UKRI will fund 80% of the FEC.
This programme will not fund fellows whose primary research objective involves working directly on scientific AI tool development.
The application deadline is 10th April
Prospective fellows will need to apply with the support of a host institution eligible for UKRI funding – please email info@royce.ac.uk if you would like to acknowledge Royce in your application.
