[Air-L] Funded PhD opportunities in AI-enabled media accessibility

[Christine Hine]

The opportunity to apply for PhD studentships under the new AI-enabled Digital Accessibility PhD programme<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/ai-enabled-digital-accessibility-ada-phd> (ADA) has just been launched - this is a new doctoral scholarships network funded at the University of Surrey by the Leverhulme Trust. Most of the studentships are aimed at UK-based students but a smaller number are available to international students. Additional funding is available for Masters Plus Doctoral Scholarships for students from underrepresented groups.

There are a number of project opportunities in this first phase that draw on social research skills to explore user needs and expectations in this area. For example, I'm involved in supervising one potential studentship under theme 5: Enhancing assistive technology through AI, focused on "Exploring preferences regarding AI-based solutions to accessibility of textual information for people living with dementia".

The full list of themes is:
1. Meaningful image/video-to-speech/text accessibility through AI
2. Meaningful speech-to-text accessibility through AI
3. Improving text comprehension and simplification through AI
4. Tools for meaningful cross-language accessibility
5. Enhancing assistive technology through AI
6. Developing novel methods to personalise ADA

Timing is tight - applications close on June 28. Please see the website https://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/ai-enabled-digital-accessibility-ada-phd for further information and details on how to apply.

Best wishes
Christine

Professor Christine Hine
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey UK, GU2 7XH
+44 (0)1483686986
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/christine-hine