Research Fellow (Planetary Networks of AI Systems - WP1)

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Research Fellow (Planetary Networks of AI Systems - WP1), Midlothian

Client: The University of Edinburgh

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

Job Description:

CAHSS / School of Social & Political Science.

Fixed Term Contract - 42 Months - From March 2025 - August 2028.

Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.

The Opportunity:

As part of the UKRI-funded project ‘Planetary Networks of the Artificial Intelligence Systems’, you will lead on Work Package 1 ‘Value Chains of AI’, involving surveys and interviews with firms and start-ups to better understand data work value chains, actors involved, and development implications in case study countries. The role requires 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia, Kenya, Uganda, and India.

This post is fixed term from 1 March 2025 to 31 August 2028.

This is a full-time position (35 hours per week). We consider requests for hybrid working (remote within the UK combined with on-campus work).

Your skills and attributes for success:

• A PhD (or equivalent), in a relevant social science (geography, sociology, anthropology, development studies, economics, or related fields), with relevant training or skills (Desirable).
• Post-doctoral or equivalent experience, with engagement in conceptual works on value chains, production networks, political economy, socio-technical systems, and organizational behavior; knowledge of platform studies, data work, and critical data studies.
• Track record of or ability to publish in peer-reviewed journals appropriate to career level.
• Experience conducting grounded fieldwork in Colombia, Kenya, India, Uganda, using surveys, interviews, and participant observation.
• Ability to travel internationally for ethnographic fieldwork in the specified countries.