Postdoctoral Research Associate, AI


Company:	City St George's, University of London
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, EC1V 0HB
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 2 days remote
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	18 Aug 2026
Closing date:	6 Sept 2026

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Summary

The Department of Computer Science, within the School of Science and Technology, is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the project When Victims Ask AI: A Feasibility Study Evaluating Chatbot Safety for Coercive Control and Non-Physical Domestic Abuse. Led by the Centre for Online-Safety, Safeguarding, Privacy and Identity (COSPI), the project brings together expertise from computer science, criminology, clinical practice and specialist Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) organisations. The research will evaluate how widely used AI chatbots respond to scenarios involving coercive control, emotional and psychological abuse, economic abuse and technology-facilitated abuse, generating evidence to inform policy, practice and the responsible development of AI systems.

You will provide technical and intellectual leadership for the computer science components of the project, designing, implementing and managing a reproducible evaluation framework for testing leading large language model (LLM) chatbots, developing software tools for automated experimentation, response collection, data management and analysis. Working closely with colleagues from criminology, clinical practice and partner organisations, you will help translate real-world safeguarding concerns into rigorous research protocols. You will analyse chatbot performance, consistency and robustness across a range of scenarios, contribute to the development of benchmark datasets and evaluation methodologies, and support the dissemination of findings through publications, reports and policy-facing outputs.

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