Syntax of Facial Communication: Statistical and Machine Vision Approaches to Segmenting and Understanding Facial Signals Queen Mary University of London in United Kingdom

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is inviting applications for two fully funded PhD positions in Linguistics at Leiden University . The post highlights doctoral research in linguistics, with the broader research context pointing to areas such as syntax , morphosyntax , theoretical syntax , and psycholinguistics . This is a student-oriented research opportunity for applicants seeking a PhD-level opening rather than a scholarship-only award. The announcement states that the positions...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Anglia Ruskin University via the Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership (Cambridge DTP) , an ESRC-funded doctoral programme. The project is in linguistics and AI , asking whether AI systems can be persuaded into harmful or extremist responses . This is a strong fit for applicants interested in language, persuasion, radicalisation, and the interaction between human communication and machine behavior. The post indicates that the successful applicant will join the t...

The University of Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences is inviting applications for a 3-year funded PhD starting in 2027. This opportunity is aimed at students interested in psychology , neuroscience , psycholinguistics , or clinical language science . Applicants are encouraged to contact and discuss their research idea with a potential supervisor before submitting their application. Application materials: a 500–700 word research proposal is required. Funding: the post sta...

PhD opportunity at the University of Reading in Computer Vision, Immersive Technologies, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science, and Food Sciences . This funded PhD project, titled Happiness by Design: Computer Vision and Immersive Technologies for Consumer-Centric Food Evaluation , explores how virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), immersive rooms, computer vision, and behavioural analytics can be used to create more realistic consumer testing environments for food products. The research ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in human-swarm interaction , robotics , artificial intelligence , computer vision , and human-computer interaction . This project, supervised by Dr Mohammad Soorati in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences , focuses on how humans can communicate high-level intent to robot swarms and how swarms can explain their behaviour, decisions, intentions, and emerging problems in intuitive ways. The research may explore graphical interfaces, natur...