Job number ACAD104402
Division/School School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies Contract type Open Ended
Working pattern Full time
Salary £38,017 - £42,792 per annum

A Senior Research Associate position is available in the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, attached to the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol. The successful applicant will work on the project ‘Explaining AI (Artificial Intelligence) Decision Making: organizational and community approaches’ funded through a strategic partnership between the University of Bristol and LV= General Insurance.

The project seeks to extend approaches to making AI decision making explainable by exploring (i) the organizational processes that shape AI decision making and how it is managed; and (ii) how the outcomes of AI decision making can be meaningfully explained to a range of data publics.

The successful applicant will be an experienced researcher, with good knowledge of the relevant fields who is able to take leadership in the day-to day running of the project. 

For informal enquiries please contact Susan Halford susan.halford@bristol.ac.uk. 

Closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 16 February 2020.

We welcome applications from all members of our community and are particularly encouraging those from diverse groups, such as members of the LGBT+ and BAME communities, to join us.