Early Career Fellowships in AI and its Applications x 4

Sponsor:         The British Council and Middlesex University

Location:        London, Middlesex University, School of Science and Technology

Funding for:   4 Visiting fellows from South Korea or Philippines

Salary:              £42,000 stipend (no tax)

Hours:              Full time

Contract:        12 months

Fellowship start: Any time before 31 March 2026

The role:

These are exciting opportunities for early career researchers to receive training or enhance their skills on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or its application or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) subjects.

Benefit or cost to cover

- Payment (stipend or bursary (ie. free of tax)): £ 42,000+ per year

- Return economy-class travel between home country and the UK

- Visa and insurance / NHS surcharge costs

- Related research expenses ( upto £ 10,000), e.g. travel, attending conferences and research activities within the UK

- Support for dependents

How to apply and deadline

Initial Express of Interest (EoI) can be made by sending a full CV to Prof. Xiaohong W. Gao with "Fellowships" as the Subject title, including a brief description of proposed research related to the following areas.

Topics: Any research areas related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), such as (but not limited to) the followings:

- Computing in medical applications e.g. early cancer detection (lung, breast, skin, oesophagus, gastrointestinal tract ) or any medical applications

- Nature disaster prevention management e.g., flood prevention, fresh air management, global temperature management

- Digital twins technology in healthcare and climate change

- Computer vision, e.g., colour vision, human colour vision, colour appearance models, etc.

- AI technology, e.g. statistical learning, neural network learning, deep and transfer learning, feature extraction and classification, knowledge reasoning, etc.

Deadline for applications: 4 January 2026

Interview date (online):    In the week starting on 12 January 2026

Eligibility

- Be a passport holder and permanent resident in South Korea or Philippines

- Be an early career researcher, i.e. not holding a permanent academic post nor a post with a research-related element (e.g. supervising PhDs, submitting grant proposals)

- Not currently in receipt of financial support or funding towards any other programme in the UK from any other sources

- Meet the English language requirement of the UK HEI if applicable

- Have received PhD or is close to completion or having PhD equivalent experience of research

- Be active in the field with work experience or with a proven interest in the proposed subject area

- Demonstrate that you are willing to contribute in the future to capacity-building and socio-economic advancement through the benefits achieved after completing the fellowship programme at Middlesex University London

- Agree to maintain contact with the British Council for purposes of monitoring and evaluation during and after your fellowship

- Demonstrate in your application a plan and a passion to engage other early career researchers in your home country

Personal Data

You must agree for your personal data to be shared with the British Council, who will be jointly responsible with Middlesex University London for allocating the Fellowships.

Questions

Please email to Prof. Xiaohong W. Gao (x.gao@mdx.ac.uk) with "Fellowships" as the Subject if you have any questions.