Introduction
Supporting The Alan Turing Institute to achieve its goal – build skills for the future - the Turing Research Fellowship has the vision to become an internationally recognised and competitive placement-based programme. It seeks to support the careers of practitioners in data science and artificial intelligence coming from, and going into, a wide set of career paths from academic, industry, government and third sector backgrounds.
The Turing Research Fellowship provides researchers from a diverse range of backgrounds with placement opportunities and the training, mentoring and career development support to enable them to work across sectors and advance their careers. Via this 3-year scheme which provides permanent employment contracts, Turing Research Fellows start by being embedded in a Turing project and throughout the first year, placement opportunities in industry, government and the third sector organisations are shaped. The scheme offers employment contracts and allocates a portion of time for Fellows to engage with independent research work to help advance their careers.
Aims and objectives
The Turing Research Fellowship aims to:
- contribute to the advancement of world-class research by delivering into the Institute’s science and innovation strategy.
- reinforce and extend Turing’s partnership network with placement hosts benefiting from access to talent.
- Support a growing community of AI champions who will transfer their strong AI and Data Science background into the wider workforce to enable change.
The objectives of the Turing Research Fellowship are:
- Build a cohort of talented researchers with the ability to translate and act across academia, government, industry and third sector.
- Enable researchers to apply world-class research to real-world problems.
- Improve the quality of research and innovation outputs across industry, government and academia.
Current Turing Research Fellows
The first cohort consists of 11 Turing Research Fellows. Find out more about them here.
How to become a Turing Research Fellow
We are yet to schedule a launch date for the next application round. This page will be updated accordingly.
Contact the team
Whether a prospective applicant or from an organisations interested in engaging with placements, please contact [email protected].
