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We are delighted to announce that Accelerate Science 2025 funding call in collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for Data Driven Discovery (C2D3) is now live!
We are offering small grants for Cambridge University researchers pursuing innovative applications of AI in research or real-world contexts with a focus on inter and multidisciplinary collaboration.
This year applications are open under three categories:
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented computer scientist to join our team as a researcher within the Green Algorithms Initiative in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, one of Europe's leading academic departments of population health sciences. The post will suit researchers interested in understanding computers energy usage to improve carbon footprint monitoring and reduce the environmental impacts of digital activities.
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge
A position exists, for a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering, to work on probabilistic machine learning for the purpose of understanding and improving the performance of Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models. The post holder will also support teaching activities on the MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence in the Department of Engineering.
The post holder will be located in Central Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
The key responsibilities and duties are:
University of Aberdeen
Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity, Cambridge
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) within the Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity invites applications for a part-time Research Assistant to work on the Desirable Digitalisation: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures programme. There is flexibility between working 0.2 FTE, up to 0.5 FTE.
This is a fixed-term post where funding is available for 12 months in the first instance.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge is seeking a Research Associate in Data Science to develop, maintain and analyse databases related to pregnancy studies.
About Obstetrics & Gynaecology:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Data-Intensive Mathematical Physics invite applications for this Professorship held in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) from persons whose work uses modern data-driven techniques, such as AI, to address significant open research questions in mathematical physics, to take up appointment as soon as possible.
Department of Engineering, Central Cambridge
We are seeking a highly motivated Research Assistant/Associate to join EPSRC and industry funded Digital Roads (DR) Prosperity Partnership at the University of Cambridge. This programme is a collaboration between industry and academia, now in the final 24 months of a 60-month effort.
The programme integrates research and innovation across both physical and digital technologies, to deliver a cyber-physical platform for the autonomous inspection, digital representation, and maintenance of highways.
Department of Oncology
Are you interested in accelerating novel interventions for the early diagnosis of cancer and risk stratification of individual at risk of cancer? Applications are invited for a highly motivated Clinical Research Associate to join a state-of-the-art translational research programme headed by Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald and Dr Massimiliano di Pietro, focusing on novel endoscopic and non-endoscopic tools for the early detection of early upper GI neoplasia.
The Public Engagement Starter Fund is an exciting opportunity for University of Cambridge researchers to apply for small grants to undertake innovative public engagement with research activities.
Applications to the 2025 Public Engagement Starter Fund, for grants of up to £4000, can be submitted until 5 September 2025.
The Cambridge-Africa programme is pleased to announce that the call for proposals to the ALBORADA Research Fund is now open.
Applications are invited from pairs of researchers (post-doctoral level and above) from the University of Cambridge or an affiliated institute and African universities or research institutes, across all disciplines, to initiate and/or strengthen research collaborations. Please note that the African applicant can be based in any African country and the awards are no longer restricted to African researchers from sub-Saharan Africa.
CRASSH offers support to postdocs and academic staff employed by the University of Cambridge or one of its Colleges to run a wide range of events and creative initiatives. We invite you to apply for funding and logistical support for any activity that will foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures, forge new collaborations between researchers and other participants, bring academic research to wider publics, or explore the connections between research and artistic practice.
Dr Ramit Debnath will be guest editing a special collection for Nature Portfolio’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications on the application of large language models (LLMs) in psychological sciences - which is now accepting submissions!
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