Research Associate in Natural Language Processing

Are you interested in working within an internationally connected, world-leading research team in a Natural Language Processing research group? We welcome applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate position in the area of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), and more specifically disinformation analysis. Working predominantly...

Are you interested in working for a world top 100 University? The University of Sheffield is recruiting a Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science. As a Research Assistant you will undertake research in developing novel explainable Natural Language Processing methods for modelling disinformation diffusion in social media. Your role is part...

You will undertake research in addressing limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as hallucinations, privacy, bias, reasoning capabilities and evaluation inter alia. Your role is part of a large interdisciplinary project "Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computing" funded by the RAI UK. You will be working with...

Are you interested in working within an internationally connected, world-leading research team in a Natural Language Processing research group? There is scope and funding provided to disseminate your research via national and international conferences and journals. Similarly, there is potential to demonstrate to industry partners, the significant impact of...

The Liveperson Centre for Speech and Language Technology was established in 2017 with the aim to conduct research into novel methods for speech recognition and general speech processing, including end to end modelling, direct waveform modelling and new approaches to modelling of acoustics and language. It has recently extended its research remit to spoken...

Applications are invited for a Research Associate role funded by both UKRI and an industry award. You will work on a multi-component research effort project aimed at developing a number of cell-based systems for drug discovery and testing, alongside work investigating the mechanism of action of the typhoid toxin of Salmonella Typhi, with the long-term aim of...

Are you interested in working for a world top 100 University? The Research Associate position will be based in ACSE at the University of Sheffield and will join a team of two researchers and two academic staff, whilst also working with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), a world-leading centre of advanced machining for aerospace and other...

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate to work on theoretical and computational analysis of MHD waves generation by vortical drivers, the interaction of multiple vortex tubes located within intergranular lanes and how they contribute to the middle and upper solar atmosphere dynamics. Plasma flows in the Sun’s photosphere have the...

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN). You will have a strong background in molecular and cellular (neuro) biology with experience in a range of molecular and cellular biology techniques Your role will be embedded in very dynamic research groups. Team...

Contract type: Fixed term for two years Summary: An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN). We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced postdoctoral research associate to join an exciting translational research project funded by the US Department of Defense....

Contract type: Fixed term for two yearsSummary:An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN).We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced postdoctoral research associate to join an exciting translational research project funded by the US Department of Defense. The...

Are you Interested in working for a world top 100 university? The Department of Sociological Studies is committed to understanding society and social change, and to research and teaching that improves people's lives, especially those of the most vulnerable. We are proud to be one of the top social science research departments in the UK, with a long history...

How does a photoreceptor synapse use mechanical motion to improve information transfer? Mikko Juusola’s lab at the University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Associate to study this question in the fruit fly Drosophila. We study ultrafast morphodynamic adaptation in photoreceptor synapses to light changes using a range of methods, such as in vivo...

Why are brains the way they are? Do neural circuits function in an “optimal” way, and if so, in what sense are they optimal? How do brains encode sensory information and form associative memories? We are seeking postdoctoral research associates to study these fundamental questions in neuroscience in the olfactory system of the fruit fly Drosophila. You...

We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to support The Productivity Institute’s Regional Productivity Forum (RPF) in Yorkshire, Humber & the North East, based at Sheffield University Management School. The Productivity Institute (TPI), which is funded by the Economic & Social Research Council, brings together world-leading and UK experts from a...

Are you Interested in working for a world top 100 university? The Department of Sociological Studies wishes to recruit a Research Associate to work with Dr Harriet Churchill and project team members from Action for Children (England) to undertake a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation entitled ‘Virtual parent support portals: Towards new research and...

We have an exciting opportunity in the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery working into Professor Judy Clegg’s and Dr Sarah Spencer’s programme of research. The research programme includes evaluations of speech, language and communication interventions for children, designing intervention programmes for children and young people...

Are you interested in working for a world top 100 University? We are seeking to appoint a post-doctoral research associate for the Programme Grant on “Quantum and Many Body Physics Enabled by Advanced Semiconductor Nanotechnology” supported by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This is a five-year programme with £6.1...

Are you interested in working for a world top 100 university? We are looking to appoint a Research Associate to work on a project funded by the QR Policy Support Fund, and supported by HELSI: The Healthy Lifespan Institute. The project involves researchers in the Information School, Dr Nicola Jay, (Consultant Paediatrician Respiratory and Allergy, Clinical...

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual interested in biology and machine learning to join the BBSRC funded project ‘Unlocking the complexity of organismal colour patterns using artificial intelligence’ as a Research Associate. The project will make use of recent advances in machine learning and computer vision to...