08 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Project: iDem, Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation

iDEM aims at addressing the barriers in deliberative and participatory democratic practices by using natural language processing methods as enablers in addressing political inequality for deliberation and participation in democratic spaces. In collaboration with other EU partners, we will develop techniques to detect difficult words and constructions in the texts of the target domain and for the target audiences by means of fine-tuning large language models. The research objective for this task is aimed at addressing the following problems: (i) the need to transfer prediction models across different user groups and domains, often with  small amounts of training data; (ii) the need to deal with multiple languages; and (iii) the need to combine heterogeneous levels of annotation on the levels of words, passages, sentences or texts, often with noise and inconsistent annotations. We will also focus on experimenting with explainable AI, so that the classifiers can provide explanations to ensure that the right choices are made for the right reasons.

Research Fellow in Music and Computational Social Science, School of Media and Communication

Working with Professor David Hesmondhalgh, as part of a successful and well-established research project, MUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of Streaming, funded by the European Research Council in the form of Horizon 2020 Advanced Research Grant, running from 2021 to 2026, you will develop and lead sub-projects concerning the distribution and consumption of music, using methods associated with computational social science. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications as well as help manage and direct the project as opportunities allow

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career in one of the UKs leading research intensive Universities?

Funded by the Niall Community Fund we are undertaking a piece of research that will establish the kinematics and kinetics of gait and the associated muscle activity of walking. This data will then be used to further inform the development of a home-based gait rehabilitation device, principally for use by people with a spinal cord injury. The work will involve literature/systematic reviews, cross sectional data collection in our labs, analyses of data using AI techniques, and further refinement of the rehabilitation device

You should have a PhD (or be close to completion) in Sport and Exercise Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely allied discipline, with experience in collecting and analysing 3D kinematic data, surface electromyography, and force platform data.

Do you have a background in nutrition research, and skills in undertaking quantitative (survey) and qualitative (interview) research studies? Would you like to work in an Academic-Industry partnership to support population healthy eating in retail out of home food settings, such as takeaways and food to go services?

Funding from BBSRC Open Research Innovation Club (ORIC) ConsumerLab has been secured to work in partnership with an Out of Home (OOH) food retailer to evaluate consumer engagement and expectations of “health” in these popular food environments. Research results will support healthier out of home retail food environments and healthy eating.

As a Research Assistant you will undertake the day-to-day set-up and delivery of the research project working closely with the lead researcher in the School of Food Science and Nutrition and the Industry partner. You will undertake work in real-life settings with consumers from different backgrounds in Leeds communities and online. Duties will include coordinating the planning of regular academic-industry meetings, undertaking a literature review and visualising and presenting findings.

You will develop and deploy a survey instrument to address the research question, in collaboration with a National Panel. You will be involved in collecting, managing and analysing qualitative and quantitative data summarising findings in reports and research presentations, to be shared with stakeholders, including Industry, Civic, and Third Sector organisations online and at an event hosted in Leeds.

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have an established background in geophysics and want to apply your skills to solve challenges using sustainable georesources? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities?

We are seeking a Research Fellow to fulfil a key role in our project to better understand how to build geophysical models of the subsurface which account for the uncertainty in current geophysical data, in order to assess the potential for sustainable energy production and resource use. You will be a key part of the Geosolutions Centre within the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds and work closely with Dr Andy Nowacki. You will be part of a large interdisciplinary team of other PDRAs, PhDs and academic staff, and will collaborate closely with others in the University and elsewhere. You will work to address the challenges of climate change through understanding and using the solid Earth, including as part of the University’s Climate Plan.