While rest of academia is struggling there are opportunities in the areas attracting “strategic” investment. King College London are one of many universities rushing to catch up with the AI juggernaut and there are some pretty exciting job opportunities as a result, full details here:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/kings-ai-academic-fellowships
King’s is delighted to announce this prestigious new Academic Fellowship scheme for 20 outstanding researchers focused on AI development and application across all disciplines, including health, bioscience, physical sciences, social sciences, security, humanities, business and law.
This is for five years, with minimal teaching, leading to a full position. For those able to make a case around AI research this is a pretty good deal (for the U.K.).
I hope that people conducting research in the social sciences are considered and that there are researchers not only jumping on the bandwagon but genuinely getting to grips with the messy realities of AI who go for these positions. Goodness knows we need that kind of research.