Doctoral Teaching Associate PhD Studentships Available in Computer Science

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD and have a passion for teaching, please consider applying for a Doctoral Teaching Associate (DTA) studentship/position in Computer Science here at Bristol conducting PhD research for 50% of your time and teaching for 50% of your time. The PhD can be focused in any area of computer science, and we welcome candidates from across the discipline to apply. There will be at least seven studentships available for 4.5 to 6 years, and applicants should have no restrictions on how long they can stay in the UK.

Please reach out to a potential CS academic supervisor ASAP to apply, the application form will be closed when all posts are recruited. You can get in touch with any academic you think might be interesting to work with, but we have included a short list of projects below: for these projects we have asked for unusual or adventurous projects that might be of interest to the adventurous students we imagine might be interested in this unusual opportunity; this is often in addition to other more mainstream projects they might have in mind. There is some more information about how to apply at the bottom.

Some potential projects.

• Software Privacy Reviews Inah Omoronyia

• The Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Paul Marshall and Matthew Higgs

• Aligning Sustainability of Teaching and Research Daniel Schien

• Lightweight verification through generic examples Steven Ramsay

• Combinatorial Optimisation and Machine Learning James Cussens

• Human computer interaction for conversations about being and consciousness Conor Houghton and Aisling O’Kane

• HenBox Conor Houghton and Pete Bennett

• Human-centered approaches to language and technology Conor Houghton

• Performance Portable science on the world’s largest supercomputers Tom Deakin

• A unified postproduction workflow for low-light acquisition environments Pui Anantrasirichai

• Vision-based object recognition under atmospheric distortions Pui Anantrasirichai

• Financial technologies with machine learning Yan Ge

• Computer Vision in the Health Domain: monitoring people for well-being and recovery Majid Mirmehdi and Alessandro Massullo

• Clean Air Zone: Algorithms to monitor and remove pollution using sound Mike Fraser and Anne Roudaut

• Co-Designing Interactive Technologies with Underserved Groups Aisling O’Kane

• Program verification as a teaching tool for computer science and software engineering François Dupressoir

• Concurrency and Linear Logic Alex Kavvos

More information

• CS research information: www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/departments/computerscience/research/

• DTA PhD studentship application: forms.office.com

• DTA teaching application to fill out after the PhD studentship is approved: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs