PhD in AI and Civic Participation for Public Policy at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in

PhD opportunity at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in AI and Civic Participation, focusing on how citizen voices shape public policy.

This doctoral project is hosted by the Amrita School of Social and Behavioural Sciences and supervised by Associate Professor Victoria Ustenko. It sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, public policy, civic participation, natural language processing (NLP), and computational social science.

The research aims to analyse how citizens frame real-world challenges in their own words, map public concerns to policy priorities, and develop scalable tools for more inclusive and responsive policymaking. The post highlights applications in areas such as environment, gender equality, and social policy, with an emphasis on bringing rural and underserved voices into policy design.

Applicants should hold a Master’s degree in Computational Social Science, Data Science, Public Policy, Political Science, Sociology, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. Useful experience includes quantitative methods, Python or R, NLP, topic modelling, policy research, or fieldwork.

The post states that this is a full-time PhD position and mentions collaboration with researchers from the University of Groningen. The admissions portal also notes that applications are submitted through Amrita’s official doctoral admissions system and that the application fee is non-refundable.

Interested candidates should apply via the official portal link and complete registration, personal information, payment, and remaining application steps before interview/test. Enquiries can be sent to [email protected].