[Air-L] 3 postdocs in Manchester

[João C. Magalhães]

Dear all,

The AI Trust and Security Cluster at the University of Manchester is hiring three postdoctoral research fellows!

Fellows will need to work with a named mentor or mentoring team and propose a project addressing a major challenge linked to AI Trust and Security. We particularly welcome projects that critically examine the practices and discourses at the intersections of AI and society. Relevant angles include democracy, politics, and government; affective and everyday life; and political economy, markets, and corporations.

These are three-year positions at a truly interdisciplinary group of researchers. The deadline for submission is 31 Jan 2026.

More at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=33836&source=JobTrainRSSFeed

Best,

Joao

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João C. Magalhães

Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Head of the AI Trust and Security Cluster | Centre for Digital Trust and Society

University of Manchester

https://jcmagalhaes.com/



Selected publications: Socially blind engineering in Facebook's foundational technologies, 2025<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-025-00971-9> (Philosophy & Technology, w/ Nick Couldry) | Open-ended technological inevitability in journalistic discourses about AI, 2025<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2522281#d1e238> (Digital Journalism, w/ Rik Smit) | The emergence of platform illiberalism, 2025 <https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6grbc_v1> (pre-print, w/ Clara Iglesias Keller and Rob Gorwa) | A history of objectionability in Twitter’s moderation practices, 2023<https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/7204763?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=joc&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=fe630b65-d137-4378-bfb2-44026df942a7&login=false> (Journal of Communication, w/ Emillie de Keulenaar, Bharath Ganesh) | Social media, social unfreedom, 2022 <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html> (Communications, w/ Jun Yu) | Big Tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good, 2021<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995> (International Journal of Communication, w/ Nick Couldry) | Considering algorithmic ethical subjectivation, 2018<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301> (Social Media + Society)