Available
Project number:
2025_26
Start date:
October 2025
Project themes:
Main supervisor:
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Co-supervisor:
Additional Information:
New language modeling approaches to tackle climate-health emergencies - SOLACE-AII
Climate change has led to a proliferation of extreme weather events, wildfires, droughts, floods, and raised sea levels. These events have catastrophic impacts on human health, both directly and through disease outbreaks, instability and violence, and forced displacement. To respond effectively, policy makers, humanitarian organisations and affected populations need fast, concise, locally tailored and applicable syntheses of research evidence. Existing reviews are too slow to address the need (>1 year; or several weeks for ‘rapid’ reviews). Evidence syntheses are often presented in dense academic reports. There is a pressing need for concise, actionable summaries. The SOLACE-AI project aims to develop an AI-driven, fully-automated rapid evidence synthesis system which follows scientific principles of systematic search, critical appraisal, and synthesis.
LLMs are effective at summarising documents, but they take author text at face value. But research synthesis requires that evidence is critically appraised so that more weight is placed on the highest quality research. This studentship will investigate LLM methods for producing critical narrative summaries of individual studies considering the validity of findings and health equity by creating LLM modules which explicitly perform distinct sub-tasks of rigorous evidence synthesis. Students will be embedded in this global project led by King’s, with the opportunity to work with collaborators (including in Africa, and US).
We are now accepting applications for 1 October 2025
How to apply
Candidates should possess or be expected to achieve a 1st or upper 2nd class degree in a relevant subject including the biosciences, computer science, mathematics, statistics, data science, chemistry, physics, and be enthusiastic about combining their expertise with other disciplines in the field of healthcare.
Important information for International Students:
It is the responsibility of the student to apply for their Student Visa. Please note that the EPSRC DRIVE-Health studentship does not cover the visa application fees or the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) required for access to the National Health Service. The IHS is mandatory for anyone entering the UK on a Student Visa and is currently £776 per year for each year of study. Further detail can be found under the International Students tab below.
Next Steps
- Applications submitted by the closing date of Thursday 30 January 2025 will be considered by the CDT. We will contact shortlisted applicants with information about this part of the recruitment process.
- Candidates will be invited to attend an interview. Interviews are projected to take place in March 2025.
- Project selection will be through a panel interview chaired by either Professor Richard Dobson and Professor Vasa Curcin (CDT Directors) followed by informal discussion with prospective supervisors.
- If you have any questions related to the specific project you are applying for, please contact the main supervisor of the project directly.
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