PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Human Contact, AI, and the New Digital Inequalities

Deadline: 4 Dec 2026 · 22 days left

Institution: City St George’s, University of London
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Social sciences, economics and law
Type: PhD position
Pay: Tax-free annual stipend of £23,805 (2026/27 UKRI rate), expected to increase annually in line with UKRI rates; Full tuition fees at the UK Home rate (£5,750 per
Deadline: 4 Dec 2026 · 22 days left

About this position

Closing date: 4 December 2026, 17:00 | Expected start: 1 February 2027 | Duration: 3 years, full-time Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at City St George’s, University of London. The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr Claudia Civai. The project, Human contact as a costly premium: the consequences of new digital inequalities , investigates what happens when human contact becomes a service that only some people can afford. As AI increasingly replaces human staff in high-stakes dom

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Deadlines and how to apply

Applications close on 4 Dec 2026 (22 days from today). Apply on the official page; PhD Atlas does not collect applications.

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTO410/phd-studentship-human-contact-ai-and-the-new-digital-inequalities

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