PhD Studentship: Multimodal Micro-Expression AI Research

Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester is seeking a Doctoral Teaching Assistant to integrate PhD research with a university teaching contract. Time is split roughly 60% research and 40% teaching, supporting core activities across classroom and lab sessions.

The role is designed to prepare candidates for an academic career, with teaching commitments spread over 22 weeks of teaching and 4 weeks of assessment per year.

Qualifications

• A high-grade undergraduate degree (first class or upper second) in computer science or MSc in related field.
• Strong programming and ML background with knowledge of vision-language models considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support research outputs and contribute to PhD research activities.
• Assist with course delivery, classroom and lab teaching, and assessment.
• Collaborate with lead academics on project milestones and dissemination.

Skills

Programming

Computer vision

Machine learning

PyTorch

TensorFlow

VLM experience

Education

BSc in Computer Science

MSc in related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester is seeking a Doctoral Teaching Assistant to integrate PhD research with a university teaching contract. Time is split roughly 60% research and 40% teaching, supporting core activities across classroom and lab sessions.

The role is designed to prepare candidates for an academic career, with teaching commitments spread over 22 weeks of teaching and 4 weeks of assessment per year.