Category Archives: PhD Positions

Post-doc opening for NLP games

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Job opening: 1 post-doc position on developing online games to collect
data for NLP

University of Essex, United Kingdom

Applications are welcome for one 3-year post-doc position funded by a 5-year
European Research Council Advanced Grant awarded to the project
DALI: Disagreements in Language Interpretation.  The project will address a
fundamental question for computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and
theoretical linguistics: namely, the extent to which humans disagree on
language interpretation (in particular, on the interpretation of anaphoric
expressions), and the implications of such disagreements, e.g., on the
development of computational models of anaphoric interpretation. We will do
this by using online games-with-a-purpose to collect numerous
interpretations for very large numbers of anaphoric expressions, building on
the successful experience with the Phrase Detectives GWAP, by analyzing
these data using Bayesian annotation models, and by developing methods for
training taking disagreements into account.
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PhD Scholarship: University of Melbourne in community engagement around energy studies

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Strategic PhD scholarship open to Aus/NZ students at the University of Melbourne in the area of community engagement around energy studies.
This is broadly open to students across engineering and humanities disciplines, and may well accommodate someone in game studies with a novel idea or applied game research.

Postdoc Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Women, Work and Leadership Research Group (Sydney, Australia)

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3 year, level A Post-doctoral fellowship working on a project on women’s careers in male-dominated occupations, professions and sectors:

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Women, Work and Leadership Research Group (University of Sydney)

Closing date: 3 May 2017 (11:30pm, Sydney time)

For further information, please use the above links or go to: http://sydney.edu.au/recruitment/ and search using the reference number 624/0317.

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PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Serious Games to Improve Critical Thinking/Decision Making

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Serious Games to Improve Critical Thinking/Decision Making

A fully funded PhD position is available as part of a collaboration with the Australian Defence College (ADC) Simulation Centre. This project will allow a candidate to work with the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) (through the ADC Simulation Centre) to conduct research that will see the introduction of a Serious Game/s to benefit the training of ADFA Trainee Officers, and possibly the ADF Chaplains College. The project will involve investigating existing “off the shelf“ game environment(s), develop appropriate training activities within the environment(s), and evaluating the cognitive/behavioural efficacy of the approach. Potential for profiling of cognitive/behavioural types and biases also exists. The project will be embedded within the i3 Lab at the University of Newcastle, Australia (http://i3lab.newcastle.edu.au/ ).

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PhD/Postdoc Positions in Game Research @Northeastern

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In addition to our Faculty Search (the deadline for full review was Dec. 31st but we are still accepting applications until the position is filled, see https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/45437), we are looking for new PhD Students to start in Fall 2017 and Post Docs to start as soon as possible or as late as September 2017.

Prospective PhD students should first seek contact with me with their CV (c.harteveld@northeastern.edu) and can then apply here for a PhD in Computer Engineering or a PhD in Industrial Engineering: http://www.coe.neu.edu/degrees/graduate-admissions

The Post Doc advertisement is mentioned below. Interested candidates can apply here: https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/44922

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PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Serious Games to Improve Critical Thinking/Decision Making

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A fully funded PhD position is available as part of a collaboration with the Australian Defence College (ADC) Simulation Centre. This project will allow a candidate to work with the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) (through the ADC Simulation Centre) to conduct research that will see the introduction of a Serious Game/s to benefit the training of ADFA Trainee Officers, and possibly the ADF Chaplains College. The project will involve investigating existing “off the shelf“ game environment(s), develop appropriate training activities within the environment(s), and evaluating the cognitive/behavioural efficacy of the approach. Potential for profiling of cognitive/behavioural types and biases also exists. The project will be embedded within the i3 Lab at the University of Newcastle, Australia (http://i3lab.newcastle.edu.au/ ).

The preferred candidate will have a background in either Computer Science/Information Technology, Psychology, and/or Education, with excellent written and oral English language skills.

Please note that the applicant must be an AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN (and women are encouraged to apply).
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