Program Link: https://apply.sloan.org/prog/call_for_submissions_metascience_and_ai_postdoctoral_fellowship/
Sponsor: Social Science and Humanities Research Council
Value: $140,000 over two years
Description: SSHRC is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the United States’ Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the United Kingdom’s UK Research and Innovation to support the Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowships. As part of this joint initiative, SSHRC will support up to four Canadian postdoctoral fellows working at Canadian institutions, at $140,000 over two years.
Early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who are interested in understanding the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for the science and research ecosystem are invited to apply.
Submissions are due no later than April 10, 2025, by 5:00 p.m. (eastern).
Canada-based applicants should apply directly to the Sloan Foundation. For more information, contact z-s-international@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
This is a postdoctoral fellowship program for grants of up to $250,000 USD to support early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem.
AI (currently understood as a set of technologies including machine learning, deep learning, and foundation models) could accelerate scientific discovery, whether through narrow applications like DeepMind’s AlphaFold, or general applications such as advances in AI-enabled lab robotics, evidence synthesis, or statistical inference. There are many practical and technical challenges to solve before society has fully-fledged autonomous ‘AI scientists’. Nevertheless, it seems inevitable that over the coming years public and private R&D funders will make significant investments both to diffuse and adopt AI technologies, and to solve technical challenges, in the direction of a more heavily AI-mediated research.
ORE internal signature deadline for RPIFs. Applicants please email Nandini Maharaj your signed (applicant and department head) RPIF + a pdf of your application. OSE applicants please contact UBC-O's Office of Research Services for internal deadlines.
Please email signed (applicant, department head, and ADR) RPIF along with a pdf of your application to ORS (ors@ors.ubc.ca). You may continue to work on the narrative sections of the application until the deadline to hit "Submit" online. However, please note that budget totals must not be changed from the submitted RPIF.
Sponsor deadline (8 p.m. eastern). If a deadline falls on a weekend or a public holiday observed in Ontario, where SSHRC’s offices are, the online application system will stay open until 8 p.m. (eastern) the next business day.
Contact: If you have any questions, contact z-s-international@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
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