PhD and Postdoctoral programs at Liverpool university with Professor Michelle Henning:

Apply before 16 September

The project researches the new paradigm of photography embedded in contemporary mobile phone cameras and promoted as “AI-assisted” since 2024. It examines the extractive image processing involved in AI image making, asking what ways of seeing the world are being normalised via the integration of generative AI into mobile phone cameras. 
 
Postdoctoral research associate (for international students):
https://tinyurl.com/f8jnxynv

PhD (for UK and Ireland students only):
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/ai-assisted-photography

Both programs will involve some creative practice as well as writing/research. They will have an emphasis on critical AI studies and photography/ visual AI. They will help to research the publicity and affordances of current mobile phone cameras, drawing on the latest theoretical and critical work in machine vision and critical AI studies, and using creative and experimental research methods.

It will suit people with an arts / culture background, a good degree of technical knowledge in image making, an experimental and creative mindset and a strong interest in critical approaches to AI imaging.