Research Fellow in XR, AI and Intercultural Media Education at UCL

University College London

England

8 Sep 2026

University College London is recruiting a 0.5 FTE Research Fellow for the Horizon Europe LIL-ECHOES project on XR, AI, cultural life, language, communication and virtual communities.

This part-time Research Fellow role at UCL Institute of Education contributes to the Horizon Europe LIL-ECHOES project. The appointee will help develop conceptual and methodological frameworks for social interaction in extended reality, conduct ethnographic research on culture in virtual communities, examine the role of XR and AI in cultural and creative industries, and analyse multimodal interactional data.

• Extended reality
• Artificial intelligence
• Intercultural communication
• Digital humanities
• Ethnographic research
• Cultural labs

Level Researcher

Time Commitment Part-time

Field XR and Intercultural Media Education

Organization Type University

Amount GBP 43, / Per Year

Funding Type Salary

Funding Status Paid

Period Per Year

Completed PhD in intercultural communication, applied linguistics, human-computer interaction, digital humanities, heritage or museum studies, or a relevant discipline.

Experience relevant to ethnographic research, multimodal interactional data, extended reality and responsible AI/XR research is explicitly relevant to the role.

• Extended reality research
• Artificial intelligence research
• Participatory ethnographic fieldwork
• Multimodal interactional data analysis
• Ethnographic data collection
  
  Ethnographic data interpretation

Ethical research practice Participant wellbeing Research publication Interdisciplinary collaboration Field-site access

Applicants should hold a completed PhD in a relevant discipline.