PhD Studentship - The Future of Work in the Age of Autonomous Systems 2022
| KCLPHDFutureWork22 | |
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| Type | Job |
| Categories (tags) | Uncategorized |
| Dates | 2022/03/11 - 2022/04/21 |
| Link | https://apply.kcl.ac.uk/ |
| Address | King's College London |
| Geolocation | 51° 30' 41", -0° 6' 58" |
| Abstract due | |
| Submission deadline | 2022/04/20 |
| Final version due | |
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PhD Studentship - The Future of Work in the Age of Autonomous Systems 2022:
Details:
King’s Business School have a three year, funded PhD studentship (home fees and stipend) available to support research concerned with the future of work and autonomous systems. Applicants should be social scientists with experience of using qualitative research methods, and an interest in interdisciplinary research. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake studies of the current use or the future consequences of autonomous systems on the nature of work. This could be an in-depth study of an organisation that is using or seeking to use autonomous systems (e.g., systems using artificial intelligence, decision-making algorithms, machine learning, automated interactions or robotics). Examples could be:
• examining the deployment and use of decision-support or decision-making systems in financial organisations and how they interface with markets; • understanding the ways in which artificial intelligence systems can support healthcare professionals, to support diagnosis and treatment; • exploring the consequences of using automated pattern or image recognition systems to identify objects and incidents in critical domains; • analysing the automation of service encounters, whether this is chatbots for handling customer queries, encounters with robot guides in museums or service robots in care homes; • studying the use of AI assistants to support management tasks, including identifying critical issues to address, filtering information or supporting meetings; • investigating the consequences of novel robots to support manufacturing or warehouse work or of automated vehicles to support distribution tasks. The studentship is part of a large collaborative project funded by the UKRI and involves partners from the Department of Informatics, the Dickson Poon School of Law and the Policy Institute at King’s College London and the Universities of Southampton and Nottingham (UKRI’s Trustworthy Autonomous System Hub). This means that students can have access to a wide range of systems and technologies, will be able to collaborate with researchers developing innovations in autonomous systems, and will be offered the possibility of exploring prototype technologies as part of their research.
The candidate will be part of the Work, Interaction and Technology (WIT) group at King’s College and of the FinWorkFutures Research Centre in King’s Business School. The WIT Group is concerned with social interaction in organisational settings, examining the ways in which tools, technologies and artefacts feature in communication and collaboration. WIT would be particularly interested in candidates who will undertake naturalistic studies of work and interaction that draw on ethnographic and video-based methods. The activities of FinWorkFutures centre around the future of work in various financial spheres, e.g., cryptocurrency, audit, financial analysis, fund management. The use of technology and the development of socio-technical systems within financial spheres are of particular interest.
- Start date:* October 2022.
- Application Information & Procedure*
Early applications are encouraged. Applicants are strongly advised to contact the supervisor Professor Paul Luff (paul.luff@kcl.ac.uk) or Professor Crawford Spence (Crawford.Spence@kcl.ac.uk) to discuss their interest.
Applications should include a 1-2 page description of your proposed topic of study, mentioning the settings you would be interested in studying and how your research would relate to issues trustworthy autonomous systems.
- Deadline: 20th of April 2022 via * *King’s Apply*
Please indicate the supervisor and quote 'PhD studentship in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems' in your application and all correspondence.
