Goldsmiths UX Conference 2023

Last week we had our UX Conference at Goldsmiths, which is the annual event where our outgoing MSc cohort get to present the results of their final projects. It was wonderful to see so many excellent presentations but sad to say goodbye to such a talented group of students (although for the handful who will be staying on as teaching assistants it may be more a case or ‘au revoir’ 🙂

I’m sure you will all go on to achieve great things. Do keep in touch!

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PhD project topics 2023

I am recruiting sponsored or self-funded PhD students who wish to undertake projects in the areas of natural language processing, information retrieval and human-computer interaction including the project outlines listed below. 

I have also appended some more focused MSc-level project ideas based on current work with 2Dsearch. Some of these have the potential to be scalable to PhD level work, so feel free to adapt / enhance them to accommodate your own ideas and interests. Note also that this list is not exhaustive: we have other project ideas and proposals which are not quite ready for public dissemination. 

If you are a self-funded student considering a PhD in any of the topics below please look at the further information and/or email me to discuss. 

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Goldsmiths UX Conference 2022

Last week we had our UX Conference at Goldsmiths, which is the annual forum where our outgoing MSc cohort get to present the results of their final projects. It was wonderful to see so many excellent presentations but sad to have to say goodbye to such a talented group of people (although for the handful who will be staying with us as TAs it may be more a case or ‘au revoir’).

Sorry I didn’t take more photos, and that the cohort was too large for a selfie… I’m sure you will go on to achieve great things. Do keep in touch!

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Research Associate in information retrieval / user experience

I am currently hiring for the following position. If you know of anyone suitable, please encourage them to apply!

Research Associate in the field of information retrieval / user experience (0.5 FTE)

This role is part of a Google-funded research project that aims to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) and data visualization to facilitate more efficient and effective approaches to information retrieval through the development of alternative approaches to search strategy formulation. This has the potential to minimize error and inefficiency in scientific research and facilitate more efficient and effective research workflows for the broader scientific community.

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PhD project topics 2022

I am recruiting sponsored or self-funded PhD students who wish to undertake projects in natural language processing and UX with focus on information retrieval, including the projects listed below.

Note that these topics are based on MSc level project proposals, but most have the scope and ambition to be scalable to PhD level work. Moreover, they are merely ideas at this stage, so feel free to adapt / enhance them to accommodate your own ideas and interests. Note also that this list is not exhaustive: we have other project ideas and proposals which aren’t quite ready for public dissemination.

If you are a self-funded student considering a PhD in any of the topics below please take a look at the further information and/or email me to discuss.

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UX+AI contract opportunity

We are hiring for the following position which combines UX and AI in an applied R&D setting. It offers the opportunity to shape the development of a new AI product within a grant funded academia/industry partnership. Further details below – ping me if you’d like to know more.

EIRA Project – User Experience contract opportunity

The University of Essex has a current opportunity to contract a User Experience specialist to work for one of our EIRA (Enabling Innovation: Research to Application) companies, Profusion Media. During this contract you will also work closely with key academic staff at the University.

Details of contract opportunity:

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Job opening: UX Researcher

I am hiring for the following position which combines UX and AI in an applied R&D setting. It offers flexible working and the opportunity to shape the development of a new AI product within a grant funded academia/industry partnership. Further details below (note the closing date) Feel free to ping me if you’d like to know more.

Job opening: UX Researcher

The University of Essex in partnership with Profusion offers an exciting opportunity to drive the development of a new AI product for fundraisers and retailers. In its beta phase, we are looking for a user researcher to work with our testing partners and our in-house developer and data team to create a user-friendly insight led product for commercial sale. The product to be user tested is a data insight tool which enables charities to retain, engage and increase income from their donors. The tool segments donors to enable charities to understand their behaviour and deliver targeted marketing in a timely manner at an individual level to increase income.

This post is part time and fixed term for nine months and is based at the Profusion offices in London.

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