[Air-L] VACANCY: Senior Lecturer (= Associate Professor) and Theme Lead in AI and In/Equality, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield

[Helen Kennedy]

VACANCY: Senior Lecturer and Theme Lead in AI and In/Equality, Faculty of
Social Sciences, University of Sheffield


Salary: £59,421-£66,857 per annum (with potential to progress to £77,475
per annum through sustained exceptional contribution).

Deadline: 6th May 2024

Reference Number: UOS040583


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The Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) and the Faculty of Social
Sciences at The University of Sheffield wish to recruit a Senior Lecturer
in AI and In/Equality.



The CMI is The University of Sheffield’s AI research centre, supported by a
£3.64m investment. This position is one of four academic theme lead
appointments. The successful applicant will lead the Human-Centric AI
theme.



The Social Research Institute (SRI) is a physical hub of research centres
and networks in the Faculty of Social Sciences, including the ESRC Digital
Good Network, the Urban Institute, iHuman, the Healthy Lifespan Institute
and the Centre for Care.



The successful candidate will work across the CMI and SRI for the first
three years of the post, and will have the opportunity to engage with SRI
centres and networks to develop a programme of research. After three years,
you will join a Social Science School appropriate to your disciplinary
background and expertise.



Concern about AI discrimination and inequality underlies much current
global policy and scholarly debate. These issues are central to the
Human-Centric AI theme and to the mission of the CMI. This is a fantastic
opportunity to develop your career and lead an important stream of work
within a major centre for AI research.



You will have a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field of the social
sciences and experience of interdisciplinary collaboration, especially with
STEM disciplines. You will have the skills to provide leadership in AI and
in/equality and to work with other theme leads and the Centre Director to
ensure that the CMI is at the forefront of AI research, innovation, and
impact, nationally and internationally.



Your teaching load during the first three years of this position will be a
maximum of 20% allocated workload, to ensure that you have capacity for
leadership activities. The position is supported by a PhD studentship (UK
fees and stipend for 3.5 years) and a generous start-up package for travel
and equipment.



-- 
Helen Kennedy, Director, ESRC Digital Good Network
<https://digitalgood.net/>, @digitalgoodnet
Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data
<https://livingwithdata.org/>, she/her
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences <https://acss.org.uk/>

*LATEST PUBLICATIONS: *

Challenging assumptions about the relationship between awareness of and
attitudes to data uses amongst the UK public
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2283729> (2023,
w/Mark Taylor and Susan Oman, *The Information Society*)

Socially meaningful transparency in data-based systems: reflections and
proposals from practice
<https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-01-2023-0006/full/html?utm_source=smc_email_onboarding&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apa_author_journals_access_2023-6-14>
(2023, w/Jo Bates, Itzelle Medina Perea, Susan Oman, Lulu Pinney, *Journal
of Documentation*)

Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through
symbolic reiteration
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779211061415>(2022,
w/Giorgia Aiello, Chris W Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, *I**nternational
Journal of Cultural Studies*.